1. What do you see as the socio-political impact of the "Panic
... and money supply, a subsequent rise in prices, specie drain abroad, and finally contraction and depression. Monetary expansion would only renew this process and prolong the contraction necessary to liquidate unsound banks and reverse the specie drain. The only cure for the depression, they concluded, was a rigid enforcement of specie payment. Sound money writers conceded that monetary ... free traders also charged that a higher tariff would aggravate the depression by imposing a tax burden on consumption, demonstrating also that falling prices had already increased the real burden of the...
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