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Signing of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act

President Herbert Hoover signed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act into law, creating the RFC to make government loans to banks, railroads, and other financial institutions.

Signing of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act

The RFC established a major federal lending agency designed to stabilize credit markets during the Great Depression and represented a significant expansion of federal intervention in the economy.

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