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The business of America is business

  1. A statement made by President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s.


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Notes

Coolidge's words are often mentioned as typical of the overconfidence in the American economy that preceded the Great Depression .
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If ever a president was disinclined to use federal government powers to help the economically suffering, it was Calvin "The business of America is business!"

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President Calvin Coolidge famously remarked that "the business of America is business," while Joel Millman, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, once wrote, "America is not a nation … America is a market."

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In the words of President Calvin Coolidge, "The business of America is business."

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As President Calvin Coolidge so famously put it, “the business of America is business.”

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Calvin Coolidge famously noted that “the business of America is business,” because Americans are “profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”

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