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The Coming Economic Nightmare
The era’s economic turmoil unnerved Americans. Mass-market best sellers such as The Late Great Planet Earth prophesied the ...
From Nixon to Trump: How US shocks keep resetting the global economic order
From Smoot-Hawley in 1930 to Nixon's gold shock in 1971 and Trump's tariffs in 2025, US economic shocks have repeatedly ...
If Trump succeeds in pressuring the Fed, he will regret it
There is historical precedent for this sort of meddling, and it is instructive. In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon ...
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Reevaluating Jimmy Carter’s Presidency
The consensus among historians, journalists, and analysts has long been that President Jimmy ... Richard Nixon is regarded as the last progressive president before Barack Obama, Democrat Carter ...
Trump’s Attacks on the Fed and Powell Will Have Unintended Consequences
In fact, there’s a long history of presidents putting pressure on Fed chiefs to cut interest rates. But President Trump’s ...
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Lennon, Ono, and the Leftists
When John Lennon was murdered on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in December 1980, it was a tragedy that took place in that ...
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Trump’s physical continues long tradition of public scrutiny over president’s health
“There was a great deal of speculation about the mental health of [President] Lyndon Baines Johnson, and even more so ...