Ideologies / Liberal Capitalist / Calvin Coolidge
§ The minds · 1872–1933 · United States · President
Calvin Coolidge
The business of America
Quiet government, busy markets.
Economic+35
SocialistMarket
Governance−16
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−28
TraditionalProgressive
The famously laconic president whose tax-cutting, hands-off stewardship of the 1920s boom made him the patron saint of small-government liberal capitalism.
social
Personally austere and traditional New Englander.
economic
Cut taxes and spending; trusted private enterprise to run itself.
governance
Minimalist executive — 'the chief business of America is business.'
Notable for
- 1920s tax cuts
- 'Silent Cal' minimalism
- Pro-business prosperity
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