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We have been here before. The king of Saudi Arabia had warned the Americans repeatedly: if you do not treat us with respect, we will cut off your oil. For years, nobody believed him. On 5 October 1973, he made good on his threat. The consequences were immediate. In America, fuel rationing and a...

In the aftermath of Louis XIV's death, France teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. The nation's coffers were empty, its credit destroyed, and its future uncertain. Into this desperate situation stepped an extraordinary figure: John Law mathematician, gambler, financial theorist, and perhaps the...

What if weve been lied to about the origins of the opioid epidemic? The modern opioid crisis did not begin with OxyContin, or even with the heroin epidemics of the twentieth century. Its roots reach back to the Age of Discovery, when European merchants broke into the largest consumer market the...

From a revered public intellectual, an essential argument for the political preconditions of a liberal society. Liberalism has always suffered from messaging challenges. It simultaneously implies a pursuit of individual liberty and social equality, two projects often regarded as at odds. Or...

Step onto Broad and Wall where ticker tape drifts like confetti and fortunes swing on whispers. In this vivid, witty, and revealing tour of America’s financial nerve center, Robert Stewart opens the doors of brokerages and the Exchange to show how courage, fear, secrecy, and cold logic collide...

“The question that arises from the book is whether Cole has done enough to warrant a major congressional investigation into his allegations. The answer is an emphatic yes.” —Fintan O’Toole, The New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking exposé of the secret conspiracy between Jared...

The forgotten story of how a generation of politicians and businesspeople sold out the country, with a foreword by Carol Off. In 2002, long before Trump started invoking fears of a future as the 51st state, The Vanishing Country was sounding the alarm about Canada’s vulnerability to US...

A sweeping, resonant, revelatory history of how the expropriation of property made the modern world, by a brilliant young historian Expropriation – the forced transfer of property rights – is usually associated with dictators, unstable countries, and violent revolution. But in fact, it has...

Bloomsbury presents Progress Vs Parasites by Douglas Carsewell, read by Russell Bentley . The change in our ancestors' behaviour was barely perceptible at first. Only a few clues in the archaeological record – sea shells, ochre and stone tools exchanged over long distances – hint at what was...

John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and...