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TnDem

(1,390 posts) Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:07 AM Jul 2025

Well

I Rec'd your post, but this mess certainly didn't start under Reagan OR Carter, but before that.

When the US went off the gold standard and finally the silver standard, it was downhill from there...First slowly and ending very fast.