pink slime. A popular term for an inexpensive, low-quality meat filler, which comprises up to 70% of ground beef sold in the US.ink slime. A popular term for an inexpensive, low-quality meat filler, which comprises up to 70% of ground beef sold in the US.
In 1913, the government established a new federal banking system, the Federal Reserve, to regulate the nation's money supply and to place some controls on banking activities. The largest changes in the government's role occurred during the New Deal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression. During this period in the 1930s, the United States endured the worst business crisis and the highest rate of unemployment in its history.
Instead, the New Deal wavered and quibbledâspending large sums of money with one hand while reducing spending with the other. One of the first acts Congress passed for Roosevelt in 1933 was the Economy Act, which slashed government spending in areas that helped reduce economic activity.ilton Friedman wrote (with Anna Schwartz) an essay on the Depression in the 1960s that they entitled âThe Great Contraction.â They placed much of the blame for this contraction on the flawed monetary policies of the Fed. But the more important failure of the New Deal was what it did not do.