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==Post-premiership==
After resigning as Prime Minister, Takahashi still retained the position of president of the ''Rikken Seiyūkai''. He resigned his seat in the House of Peers in 1924, and was elected to a seat in the [[House of Representatives of Japan|Lower House]] of the Diet of Japan in the [[1924 Japanese general election|1924 General Election]]. When [[Katō Takaaki]] became the prime minister and set up a coalition cabinet in 1924, Takahashi accepted the post of Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. He divided the department into the [[Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Japan)|Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry]] and the [[Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Japan)|Ministry of Commerce and Industry]]. Takahashi resigned from the ''Rikken Seiyūkai'' in 1925.

Takahashi served as Finance Minister under the administrations of [[Tanaka Giichi]] (1927–1929), [[Inukai Tsuyoshi]] (1931–1932), [[Saitō Makoto]] (1932–1934) and [[Keisuke Okada]] (1934–1936). To bring Japan out of the [[Great Depression of 1929]], he instituted dramatically expansionary monetary and fiscal policy, abandoning the [[gold standard]] in December 1931, and running deficits.<ref>{{cite web|last=Evans-Pritchard|first=Ambrose|title=Japan's economic revolution rocks the world|url=http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/japans-economic-revolution-rocks-the-world-20130122-2d3w2.html|publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=22 January 2013|date=22 January 2013}}</ref>