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Government was not in the business of intervening in the economy in 1837. This logic that Van Buren inherited from Andrew Jackson (whose effort to eliminate the National Bank of the United States was the very definition of keeping the Federal Government out of the economy) would be disastrous. His seeming unwillingness to keep Americans get out of his recession/depression would lead to his lost for re-election in 1840.

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