
It Could Happen Here Weekly 85
Behind the Bastards
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The Plaza Accords
In 1985, Ronald Reagan is trying to like revive the US's domestic manufacturing industry. George Soros predicts that this is going to happen and she makes an unbelievable amount of money. The British central bank doesn't have enough money to stop them from making these huge bets against national currencies. And so he gets like completely blamed for this even though there's other people involved in this too.
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