In the years before the Panics of 1837 and 1839, the US economy experienced an economic system remembered as the Free Banking Era.  It was a time when the Jacksonian Deomcrats, and their Laissez Faire ideals were in power.  How did the economy perform when the federal government decided it would go hands-off in terms of economic regulation? Listen in to find out. 

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