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A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Nathaniel Branden

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Nathaniel Branden
Age: 84 †
Born: 1930
Born: April 9
Died: 2014
Died: December 3
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