government-created monopolies are everywhere

Fed manipulation of interest rates helped cause the depression of 1920-1 and Great Depression of 1929-39 (that helped lead to World War II). ... However, trade surpluses resulted mainly because every other major economy had been severely damaged during World War..

the european left in disarray

By the political classes of, From the outset, the structures that became EU were characterized by agreements brokered between elites, beginning with European Coal and Steel Community drawn upWest Germany, France, in the wake of World War II. ..

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