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rampartd

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7. nixon lost them with wage and price contols

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Sun Jan 26, 2025, 09:09 PM

Jan 26

and going off the gold standard

i'm convinced he would have gotten away with watergate

maybe trump will pull a scam with "bitcoin reserve" that they can not stomach?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

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