The Thatcher and Reagan administrations also abolished capital controls which had been put in place at a time of fixed exchange rates.

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Andrew McBride is a former Federal Prosecutor who's filed a brief on behalf of three former Attorney's General in the Bush and Reagan Administrations.

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Under both the Clinton and Reagan administrations, there was a deep intellectual sympathy between governing parties and elites on both sides of the Atlantic.

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