Bill Mitchell: Some lessons from history for the design of a coronavirus fiscal intervention

Fifty years ago, a US president closed the gold window, ended capital controls, and launched a new era of globalized finance. The “Nixon Shock” reshaped the international monetary system overnight, and then gradually changed the […]

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