John Steele Gordon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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There were no banks in the in in the colonies because Britain didn't allow them.
And Britain also bade the export of British coinage.
And so the money supply that we had was a hodgepodge of Spanish dollars and bits and pieces of
some British coins, but not many, and things like tobacco warehouse certificates which passed as money.
Um, so we were in a very poor shape when it came to the most expensive public policy of all is war.
It's an old Chinese expression that wars are fought with silver bullets.
And unfortunately we didn't have any.
As you said, there there were no banks in the in in the colonies because Britain didn't allow them.
And Britain also bade the export of British coinage.
And so the money supply that we had was a hodgepodge of Spanish dollars and bits and pieces of
Some British coins, but not many, and things like tobacco warehouse certificates which passed as money.
Um, so we were in a very poor shape when it came to the most expensive public policy of all is war.
I think the
I'm not sure they articulated it, but the British had to fight a war with a three thousand five hundred mile supply line and that was a very difficult and turned out too difficult thing for them to do.
Yeah, Robert Morris was a very successful Philadelphia merchant, lives in state in the large house.
And he was very creative financially.
And he was known as the financier of the revolution.
But how we did it is to some extent, don't ask.
Here's the money.
And he was he was a brilliant man.
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