The first treasury secretary's plans would have created cartels that mainly benefited the wealthy at the expense of small competitors.
Lincoln's wartime governance had dire, and longstanding, economic consequences.
Despite all the controversy it has courted, Woody Holton's newest book doesn't stray very far from other scholarly interpretations of the American Revolution.
There are five instances of the Treasury defaulting on the debt.
A lost volume of American history finds the light of day.
A book about the birth of the Federal Reserve overlooks the flaws in the system.
A history of Abraham Lincoln's critics would be improved if the author weren't so smitten with Lincoln himself.
The financial crisis fundamentally changed the nature of central banking.
Trying to understand one of America's great economic downturns
Free market economists debate the prospects, fears, and even hopes for rising prices in post-crises America
How the Federal Reserve engineered the most dramatic peacetime experiment in monetary and fiscal stimulus in U.S. history without anyone noticing