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It Could Happen Here Weekly 14

It Could Happen Here

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The Effects of Vulkar on the World Economy

Vulkar is installed, weirdly, not by ronald regan, but by jimmy carter. Is given the sort of mandate to just do whatever you have to to get inflation under control. N the thing that he decides to do wi just literally nok the entire world economy. This sets off a recession that lasts basically from like 19 79 till like 19 82. At the height of it,. i'm like 80 90 % sure that between woodwor two and the pendemic, that was the single largest number of people who've ben unemployed in the us. Just was just epocle justp devastation.

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