Eric Eggen

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Because farmers responded to lower prices by producing more, agricultural output did not shrink. But more crops on the market led to falling prices and deflation, which meant the farmers would pay back the cheap dollars they had borrowed with more expensive dollars. Here was fuel for agricultural rebellion.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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