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Dec 2021
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The time the US paid off all its debt (I...

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Hey Indigators! It's Encore Week at The Indicator. We're sharing some of our favorite episodes of the year.

Today, we're kicking things off with a listener favorite about the time President Andrew Jackson paid off all of America's interest-bearing debt...with disastrous results.

This episode originally came out in August.
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