The Revolutionary War threw the nation's economy into an inflationary tailspin. This episode explores the effect the War for Independence had on the economy, as well as Congress's devious means of paying for the war.

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Starting in the colonial days, the US has been a test tube of capitalist thought. This episode tells the story of the US economy, starting in the Colonial period and goes through the US Revolution. The episode also talks about the Wealth of Nations, the seminal text of capitalist thought which was published the same year as the US Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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