What is most stunning in reading the history of the Jackson-Van Buren era is to read the way the Democratic Party destroyed the American banking system, generating the most devastating depression in a fifty year period.
The Jackson-Van Buren ranting against Wall Street, New York, brokers and big finance is the same language we hear from the modern Democrats, Reid-Pelosi and Obama.
The 150 year old Democratic Party created and supported the corrupt Freddie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage banks and are trying to re-make American finance with the same political ideology that they used 150 years ago to wreak havoc.
The simple solution, disconnecting wild and untameable finance from cautious solid commerce, is anathema to their doctrinaire: 'all problems can be corrected with 2,000 page legislation'.