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James Beck: “But when in the history of American business was there such a volume of broken faith as in the drastic deflation of…”

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But when in the history of American business was there such a volume of broken faith as in the drastic deflation of 1920?
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James Beck
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Beck reflects on the economic turmoil of the early 1920s and its implications for trust in business.

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