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On the recordSeptember 22, 2020
Listening to our colleagues wax eloquent about how great the economy was before millions of people were thrown out of work...
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin compares pre-crisis economic claims to Hoover's perspective before the Great Depression.

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