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63 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 19 Aug 2024 \ parent \ on: Remembering Nixon’s Wage and Price Controls econ
Any wonder why the Tea Party formed after 2008 financial crisis? Why populism became popular after 2009?
Tea Party on the right
Occupy Wall Street on the left
Edit: and Bitcoin quietly gestating outside it all. How could I forget.
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The tea party basis was forming before 2008. Ron Paul had been around a long time by then and was popular with the people in the know. Lew Rockwell had his website up and running and was getting some high powered anti-war folks going, too.
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