Basis States

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“The basis of political economy is non-interference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
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