From Plenty to Ruin

This episode is about the Panic of 1819, America's first (post-Revolutionary War) financial crisis.  We pick up with the economically vibrant years following the War for Independence and learn what it takes to derail a healthy economy.  We'll talk about Jefferson's Embargo, and how the government promoted dangerous banking practices through the War of 1812.  Finally, we explore how those dangerous practices came to a tumultuous head in 1819 when the nation's economy collapsed.  

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