Economic history

<p><span class="deck">Those who believe that America’s power is on the wane look to the example of Britain’s shockingly quick collapse. But the similarities may be less alarming than they seem.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Foreign trade, import and export alike, has been indispensable in building America from the very start, and many of our worst economic troubles have arisen when that trade wasn’t free enough. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">With his usual furious vigor, Andrew Jackson posed a question that continues to trouble us to this day.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Will the current bull market die spectacularly, a la 1929, or—as in 1974—will it strangle in weird silence?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The fate of the codfish suggests that collectivism on the ownership level is as destructive as anywhere else.</span></p>

<p>As Covid-19 threatens to push millions of Americans into poverty, we can look to the past for lessons on how to deal with a pandemic.</p>