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Fear City with Kim Phillips-Fein

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New York State's Emergency Financial Control Board

i think it's very interesting. And and beam's refusal to make a political defence of new york social democracy facilitates that problem, because he offers himself as the face of the problem for people to protest. But protesting beam ends up not being the right target, sort of. He happens to be carrying all this out, but he isn't the person with whom these plans and visions originate either. The state also is actually concerned about its own finances. Th new york state has borrowed a lot during the 19 sixties and early seventies two,. Its own fiscal position was in danger um, especially if the city went bankrupt.

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