financial history

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/21/2021
  

  Could a New Public Digital Dollar Enhance Democracy?

  by Jeffrey Sklansky

  The debate over the digital dollar is ultimately about whether the production of money should be a business run for private profit or a resource owned and operated by the public.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/3/2020
  

  In Memory of David Graeber, Listen to A BBC Interview on the History of Debt

  Anthropologist David Graeber, whose works included the influential book Debt: The First 5,000 Years has recently passed away. This 1996 BBC interview explores the terrain of that book and the significance of debt as a political force. 

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• SOURCE: Washigton Post
  5/7/19
  

  A century-old feud between millionaires is now key to getting Trump’s tax returns

  The law at issue in the strife over Trump’s taxes arose from a bitter dispute between Mellon and Sen. James Couzens (R-Mich.), a deep-pocketed adversary on Capitol Hill, over the lawmaker’s investigation of the IRS.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/22/19
  

  The important way the 2008 crisis was worse than the Great Depression

  by Matt O'Brien

  The 2008 crisis is still with us to this very day even though it officially ended almost a decade ago.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/2/19
  

  The Real Legacy of the 1970s

  by Michael Tomasky

  Inflation was as pivotal a factor in our national crackup as Vietnam and Watergate.