The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was an independent agency of the U.S. government, chartered during the administration of Herbert Hoover in 1932 in response to the Great Depression.he RFC would buy the preferred stock of an old railroad or a new corporation and lend it money. RFC dispersed $1.5 billion in 1932, $1.8 billion in 1933, and $1.8 billion in 1934. Loans and subsidies reached $10.6 billion by 1935 (in 1934 the entire GDP was $65 billion).
~ 1 min read. Five major mental illnesses â depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, schizophrenia and autism â are traceable to the same inherited genetic variations, according to the largest genome-wide study of its kind. These variations account for 17-28 percent of mental illness risk.
schizophrenia, mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety or alcoholism. Scientists are gaining more knowledge about the role of genes in mental illness. Research suggests that when and where in the brain a gene âturns onâ during. develeopment could impact the development of mental illness (NIMH). Though scientists are uncovering the genetic causes to these disorders and. others, they also point out that mental illnesses are often the result not only. of genetics, but also of environmental and social factors.