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Andrew Mellon and the Economy of the 1920s

Andrew Mellon, a corporate giant in the early 1900s, served as both Secretary of the Treasury and the chairman of the Federal Reserve System under three U.S. presidents in the 1920s. At a time when the United States was recovering from World War I, Mellon championed deregulation and other business-friendly policies as strategies to expand economic growth.

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