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How Common Has Private Currency Been?
Recently, an investment advisor and Bitcoin proponent tweeted the claim that “or most of human history” the “eparation of money...
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Is China a Threat to the Fed? A Critique of the Portman Report
Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new minority...
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The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20, Appendix: The Fate of Rosie the Riveter
In assessing the possibility that a severe downturn occurred at the end of WWII, I took issue with conventional wartime...
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The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20: The Phantom Depression
It was supposed to be a debacle. As the Second World War drew to a close, the nation's leading economists...
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The New Deal and Recovery, Part 19: War, and Peace
Thanks to the Roosevelt Recession, in the spring of 1938 the New Deal's "Keynesians" finally found themselves in the saddle,...
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