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Archive of posts published in the tag: Roger Lowenstein

Pre-Progressivism

Henry Oliner 2016 01 21 In the campaign leading up to William McKinley’s campaign of 1896 the two hottest topics in political debate was tariffs and currency.  Consider them as prominent as health care and immigration are today. Tariffs and

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Capitalism Requires Capital

They had invented mortgage products designed to circumvent the banking wisdom of the ages, and they had peddled these mortgages with a willful disregard, bordering on fraud, for whether their customers could repay them. They had bullied Congress and their

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