Gillian Tett
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1,226 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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Huh, free silver movement.
It sounds like a sort of almost like a sort of campaign slogan or a you know, something like that.
But so um when people were campaigning on this free silver movement, um
Did they target John Sherman in particular?
Was he blamed for this?
Ha.
So one lesson from all this is read the footnotes, read the small print, look at the details.
Because of course people in Congress are still doing this kind of game where they try and bury stuff, you know, deep in bills and people complain later on they didn't see it.
But
In practical terms, how did the political conflict then play out in the following years?
I mean
Did it sort of actually snowball the sense of political crisis and the free silver movement?
But that sounds familiar.
So it's a long established pattern that we've seen so play out so many times that when there's a crunch, people often blame foreigners first and foremost.
Um, if in doubt, blame the Brits quite often.
Sadly, by attacking the Rothschilds, I suspect there might have been some really ugly anti Semitism there as well.
But there was a real sense of finger pointing on outsiders, even though
The people who were backing the original abandonment of the silver monetization.
system were actually domestic for the most part, but
Was there any attempt to kind of wiggle the way out of this with any compromises at all?
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