The Importance of Circulating Money

When the economy is going well, you don't have to raise taxes on anybody or tariffs because you can just sell the land and have that filled with coffers. But then there's a banking crisis that hits during Van Buren's term. And of course, Van Buren had no answer to that because policy was entirely secondary to politics. He didn't know what to do about the economy. None of them did. So they just did what they already knew, which was ideological and useless.