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The Dig: Founding Finance with William Hogeland

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The Whiskey Rebellion

I just thought it'd be like a cool story. It's got a lot of drama a lot of colorful character and stuff Herman husband comes back you know which is cool I had no idea when I got into it there was so much great stuff in it but the thing that cracked open all this other stuff we've been talking about for me yeah let's jump ahead to 1790s now... Hamilton wanted to centralize wealth in the country, consolidating wealth in the U.S., creating a financial elite totally connected to government  and war at the high elite level. The Constitution was a mechanism for getting imperfectly but getting a lot of what he'd wanted to bring about his vision

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