Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.
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This is the first time a world currency has been pegged to gold since the Bretton Woods system ended in 1971.
Nixon’s decision left the IMF without a clearly defined role. Under the leadership of the industrialised countries, it began to fashion a new more intrusive and ideological role.
PODCAST: The third part of a series from The Anthill Podcast on how the world recovered from major crises throughout history focuses on the recovery after 1918.
Long before COVID-19, central banks were lining their stores for winter.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the big G.
With countries such as China and Sweden are studying plans to create a new form of money – a central-bank digital currency. CBDCs risk revolutionizing both the way money is created and distributed.
Lyman Frank Baum’s classic allegory is a reminder that the populists have been on the march before.
A few years back, mock-conservative TV pundit Stephen Colbert famously introduced the notion of “truthiness” into the political lexicon. As Colbert put it, truthiness pertains not to whether beliefs are…
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