The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare
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Mormonism and the rise and fall of mutual aid
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The crypto story: Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters
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How this Florida town became the sea sponge capital of the world | Big Business
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Physiocracy
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The history of global banking
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The Fed’s entry into check clearing reconsidered
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Megan Thee Stallion and fast food’s ongoing pursuit of Black buy-in
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Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?
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What history tells us about bond-rate scares like this
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2020 US Congress insider trading scandal
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The "whitewashing" of Black Wall Street: A century after the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre, Black entrepreneurs in the city’s Greenwood district feel threatened with erasure yet again
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The fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
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Inside the surprisingly big business of UK packaged ice
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Understanding measurement issues is key to understanding ‘economic growth’
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Why helicopter airlines failed
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The lessons of the Great Depression
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Non-glamorous gains: The Pennsylvania land tax experiment
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When business plans blow up: management lessons from WWII
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The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
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Covid-19 could mark the end of affluence politics in the USA, as the possibility of a global pandemic reveals the inability to make and distribute the things people need
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Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic lessons (from 2008) for 2020
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That time when the US government wanted Americans to use one dollar coins
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The dot-com bubble - Five minute history lesson
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The economy of Stalinist Russia
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How stock buybacks made CEOs and shareholders really rich
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Enron: The biggest fraud in all of history
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The time when capitalism went too far
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Where dollar bills come from
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A history of Visa, the credit card company. Part I
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American capitalism is brutal. You can trace that to the plantation
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How a merger in the 1990s ruined Boeing, and why the government will have to step in to save the company
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Why big companies squander brilliant ideas
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The single biggest layoff in Canadian history
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The real Goldfinger: The London banker who broke the world
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A woman has been named as NYSE president. It only took 226 years
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