The industry that spent 50 years insisting it didn’t need the state has discovered it can’t do without it.
Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes is the author of Plumbing and Power: The Political Life of the Fed’s Operating System, forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
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Greenspan Was the Creator of His Own Disaster
The former Fed chair, who died at the age of 100 this week, deliberately engineered financial markets to be faster and looser. Then they blew up.
Posted inPolitics
Rule by Deal
Donald Trump engages in ad hoc agreements with individual companies and governments to expand his power. Some observers have described these actions as a new “economic nationalism”—but that term fails to explain what makes this administration’s decision-making unique.