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Martin Van Buren: It is easy to see that the increase of this foreign debt must augment the annual demand on the exports to pay the…

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It is easy to see that the increase of this foreign debt must augment the annual demand on the exports to pay the interest, and to the same extent diminish the imports, and in proportion to the enlargement of the foreign debt and the consequent increase of interest must be the decrease of the import trade.
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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Van Buren illustrates the relationship between increasing foreign debt and its negative effects on trade.

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