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Victoria C. Woodhull: “No country can enjoy a series of years of uninterrupted commercial prosperity when that country has a circulating medium…”

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No country can enjoy a series of years of uninterrupted commercial prosperity when that country has a circulating medium which can be affected by the manipulations of shrewd financiers for their own ends.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull argues that a stable economy cannot exist when financial systems are manipulated for personal gain.

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