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It is the business of the National Government to provide a medium, automatically contracting and expanding in volume, to meet the needs of trade.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Taft argues for a flexible monetary medium to support trade needs in his 1930 address.

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