The 19th-Century Bernanke

Tags: The Fed, World History

09/01/2009 Dan Sanchez

Nicholas Biddle was the president of the American central bank that preceded the Fed. When his bureaucratic cradle was rocked, he quickly morphed into a Machiavellian monster, writes Dan Sanchez.

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