Noah Smith's Deep Dive on the Chinese Economy
Village Global Podcast
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We Need Some Heavy Bombers, Right?
In the late 19 thirties, suddenly it starts to become apparent that hitler enoa, japan or stolid are going to make a bid to overturn the world order and conquer the word. The f t r administration realizes this at a time when the american people don't realize or don't care,. And so instead, they started quietly preparing and quietly reorienting their economic policy toward war production in, i would say, 19 36. When you look at when heavy bombers started to be designed in America, its 19 36. They started doing now, of course, when the war actually an they space really scrambledto put together the war production boards and all this coordinated central
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