Undemocratic, anachronistic, fantastic. How the City of London survives.
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How money and banking work (and why they're broken today)
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Cocoa price swings are the craziest since the 1970s
14 votes -
There used to be a people’s bank at the US Post Office
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Why the 2% inflation target?
29 votes -
Is private equity actually worth it?
18 votes -
The birth of a (pseudo) currency
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Taser maker Axon has a moving backstory. It's mostly a myth.
15 votes -
Kettle of vultures
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The robots are coming, but older workers have less to fear than they might think
7 votes -
The biggest bank heist in history (and why you've never heard of it)
7 votes -
Drexel and alumni increased the importance of private credit
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Gini global inequality at lowest level in nearly 150 years
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The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare
7 votes -
Mormonism and the rise and fall of mutual aid
3 votes -
The crypto story: Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters
13 votes -
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
4 votes -
The Fed’s entry into check clearing reconsidered
3 votes -
Megan Thee Stallion and fast food’s ongoing pursuit of Black buy-in
6 votes -
Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?
8 votes -
What history tells us about bond-rate scares like this
6 votes -
The fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
11 votes -
Inside the surprisingly big business of UK packaged ice
8 votes -
WTF happened in 1971?
16 votes -
Understanding measurement issues is key to understanding ‘economic growth’
5 votes -
The lessons of the Great Depression
8 votes -
Non-glamorous gains: The Pennsylvania land tax experiment
7 votes -
When business plans blow up: management lessons from WWII
6 votes -
The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
10 votes -
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
21 votes -
Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic lessons (from 2008) for 2020
3 votes -
That time when the US government wanted Americans to use one dollar coins
6 votes -
The dot-com bubble - Five minute history lesson
8 votes -
The economy of Stalinist Russia
5 votes -
How stock buybacks made US CEOs and shareholders really rich
10 votes -
Enron: The biggest fraud in all of history
4 votes -
The time when capitalism went too far
4 votes -
The not-com bubble is popping—The unicorn massacre unfolding today is exactly the opposite of what happened in 2000
22 votes -
Where dollar bills come from
6 votes -
A history of Visa, the credit card company. Part I
8 votes -
American capitalism is brutal. You can trace that to the plantation
16 votes -
Why big companies squander brilliant ideas
4 votes -
The single biggest layoff in Canadian history
6 votes -
The long, long history of long, long CVS receipts
11 votes -
The real Goldfinger: The London banker who broke the world
8 votes -
A woman has been named as NYSE president. It only took 226 years.
5 votes