Founding Finance with William Hogeland
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What Were the Oppressions of Parliament and the Crown in Colonial America?
Husband: Parliament and the crown were not the only oppressors in colonial American society for many 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. He thought that that was part of the problem was that everything was pegged to gold and silver. And he was kind of right.
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