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It Could Happen Here Weekly 31

Behind the Bastards

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The Us. Manufacturing Economy Is Dying

Dion fongs is a migrant worker for ages and when she's 16, she moves to the us. To support her family. In ninetee 95, does the reverse pla accords, whre they just reversed the thing they did before. And so now the dollar is incredibly strong again. Every other currency is really weak relative to it. And this just obliterates, like, every economy in east asia,. Like, they all just implo. Tyland goes under, and most oe coutries have never recovered. They do normal i m f stuff and they impose much of austerity measures. But right on the edge of bankruptcy, everything shows up because it's

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