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Convene international monetary and economic conferences to stabilize currencies and restore trade — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.79	1932	Herbert Hoover	International economic and monetary conferences	A world economic conference on monetary stabilization and trade, with an agricultural representative
0.59	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A sound currency preserved at all hazards
0.55	1936	Alf Landon	Gold standard and currency basis	Sound currency 'at all hazards'; no further devaluation; repeal the laws delegating the money power to the Executive
0.52	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	Revise the tariff downward through reciprocal trade agreements
0.52	1932	Herbert Hoover	Gold standard and currency basis	Hold the gold standard and the 'honest dollar'; no fiat money, no 'rubber dollar' price-fixing
0.51	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	Federal regulation of securities and commodity exchanges, interstate holding companies and interstate utility rates
0.51	1932	Herbert Hoover	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of war debts; apply any annual payment to opening foreign markets for American farm products
0.51	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A permanently sound currency stabilized against wide fluctuations
0.50	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of the war debts — make payment possible by restoring trade
0.49	1932	Norman Thomas	Public ownership of major industries	Transfer the principal industries — banking, natural resources, utilities — to social ownership by compensation, not confiscation
0.49	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Maintain — and if necessary widen — the protective tariff; reject the Democratic 'competitive tariff for revenue'
0.48	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Railroad regulation and consolidation	Six-point railroad program — conditional federal support, receivership reform, ICC regulation of trucks and holding companies, consolidation
0.48	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Concentrated economic power vs. the average citizen (rhetorical framing)	Take power from the 'economic royalists': the mandate of 1932 is to end economic tyranny
0.47	1932	Alfred E. Smith	European war debts and reparations	A twenty-year moratorium on the war debts, writing them off in proportion to each nation's purchases of American goods
0.47	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Restoring the commodity price level (reflation)	Restore commodity prices toward their former dollar value rather than write down all debts
0.46	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm and home mortgage relief	Low interest rates, sounder home financing, better banking
0.46	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Farm prices can be restored only by general recovery and markets — no production control, no subsidies; repeal Farm Board stabilization
0.45	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Unconditional most-favored-nation treatment; no reciprocal bargains or preferences
0.45	1932	Herbert Hoover	Railroad regulation and consolidation	Revise the railway transportation laws for stability, while RFC loans avert receiverships
0.44	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Executive reciprocal trade agreements (1934 Act)	Continue the reciprocal trade agreements to lower barriers against American exports
0.44	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	Reorganize and enlarge the Federal Land Banks to refinance farm mortgages; curb Joint Stock Land Bank abuses
0.44	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of federal spending	Reduce the expenses of government as relief needs decline
0.43	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Raise staple farm prices by a tariff-equivalent benefit plus voluntary production control, at no cost to the Treasury
0.43	1936	Frank Knox	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Fair, honest, economical and efficient government; preserve free enterprise against 'amateur economic planners'
0.43	1936	William Lemke	Farm and home mortgage relief	Refinance farm mortgages through the Frazier-Lemke plan (government-issued credit at low interest)