Beer: A Short and Bitter History of Regulation By Daniella Bassi Some think that beer's history of regulation begins with hops, but beer has been hemmed in by government red tape for much longer.
How Nixon and FDR Used "Crises" to Destroy the Dollar's Links to Gold By Jonathan Newman In 1971, Nixon used a fiscal crisis to justify severing the dollar's last connection to gold. It was the same old story: "we must vastly expand government power because of a 'crisis.'" The government never gives up these new powers.
The End of the Gold Standard. Fifty Years of Monetary Insanity By Daniel Lacalle The gold standard supposed a limit to the fiscal voracity of governments, and suspending it unleashed the perverse proclivity of the states toward indebtedness and to pass the current imbalances on to future generations.
