America in the 1880s was rife with scandals and shady business deals -- Charles Dickens railed against our counterfeiting, Germany banned our contaminated pork, an investigation in Boston found, among other crimes, milk bulked up with chalk. Does this sound vaguely familiar? In a fascinating article in...
NEW YORK -- On Thursday, April 17, the Museum of American Finance will continue its 2008 Henry Kaufman Financial History and Practices Lecture/Symposia Series with a talk by author Stephen Mihm on A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. The program will be...
MONEY MAY BE A MEANS of exchange and a store of value, but it can also function as propaganda. The average economist might dismiss this as nonsense, but looking at this note (pp. 352-353), it's obvious that this piece of paper is doing far more "work" than merely facilitating commerce...
"Having exported pet food and toothpaste laced with antifreeze earlier this year, the world's emerging economic powerhouse has diversified into other, equally dubious product lines: scallops coated with putrefying bacteria, counterfeit diabetes tests, pirated Harry Potter books, and baby bibs coated with lead, to name but a few." ...
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