Is the Federal Reserve Really Willing to Tighten Money?

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The leverage do impose ne liberalism without even the need of a military coup, exactly. It's a sort of a new way of exercising your national power, but which leads to really dramatic consequences. So if you're loking at the history of coor brazil, or countries all over africa, these are years of d industrialization. Because the sort of conditions of being rescued from there their debt involve policies that make no domestic investment and that sort of thing completely impossible.

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