Bank of England

Marbled paper was a way to make banknotes and checks unique—a critical characteristic for a nascent American Republic.

The panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that triggered a multi-year economic depression.

In three centuries, the heresies of two bankers became the basis of our modern economy.

Oscar Hartzell convinced thousands of Americans that they could get a piece of the Sir Francis Drake estate—a multibillion-dollar inheritance that didn’t exist.

An American story.

Colonial currencies and the pan-American origins of the dollar system.

How a story told by a fugitive from slavery became a parable of American banking gone bad.

On Populist programs and democratic central banking.

One has to wonder whether the advocates of a new Cold War have taken the measure of the challenge posed by 21st-century China.

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