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The Dig: Founding Finance with William Hogeland

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What Were the Oppressors in Colonial American Society?

Husband: Parliament and the crown were not the only oppressors in colonial American society from any ordinary people. They day to day struggled with what they called a lack of money, which was their term for an economic depression. Husband proposed going off the gold standard way back then. And even people on the left back then were like, whoa, that's crazy, you know.

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