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Professor Richard Sylla weighs in on a story examining the role the federal government should play as Congress continues to negotiate the next coronavirus crisis relief bill

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Excerpt from PBS -- “These are the eternal debates in American history,' said Richard Sylla, a professor emeritus of economic and financial history at New York University. 'It’s a bit like what Andrew Hamilton was facing in 1790,' he said, describing the plan to have the new federal government assume the Revolutionary War debts of the states, despite protests of a bailout. It was, he said, as Hamilton framed it, 'the price of liberty.'”

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