Volgar Was Genuinely Independent From Narrowly Defined Special Interests.

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Vulkar believed that if you didn't crush inflation through a sort of induced recession, there would still be a recession later. He's really an old school guy, really a pre cansian in his thinking. So we don't make these people out to be kind of comic book villains who are youno, taking pleasuren in what they're doing. And i just, you kow, ithink that's important to mention.

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