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“Cross of gold”

On July 9, 1896, William Jennings Bryan delivered his “Cross of Gold” speech advocating bi-​metallist inflationism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, a triumph of rhetoric over reason that solidified the takeover of the Democratic Party by reformers utterly ignorant of basic economics.

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