The Monetary Commentary
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Greenspan’s last big cut fed the housing blowoff before 2008
Alan Greenspan’s legacy will always be split between the “Maestro” era and the housing bubble that followed it. This chart captures the part that aged worst.
After the 2001 slowdown and 9/11 shock, the Fed took the funds rate from above 6%...
Recession files (part 11): the century-turn tight money slump
By the end of the 1890s, the U.S. economy had finally started climbing out of the wreckage of the Panic of 1893 and the gold-standard depression that followed. Gold discoveries in Alaska and South Africa helped expand the world’s monetary g...
Recession files (part 10): the gold-standard grind
This one is not a panic chart. That is the point.
By the time the 1895-97 recession arrived, the dramatic break had already happened in 1893. What remained was the grind: depressed commerce, unsettled credit, and a monetary regime that mad...
Recession files (part 9): the Panic of 1893
The Panic of 1893 is usually remembered as a financial panic, but the better chart is a body count.
Not people — firms. Commercial failures are what make this recession look different. The official downturn runs from the January 1893 peak...
The space economy starts with cheaper launches
The space boom is usually sold as a story about ambition — Mars, moon bases, private astronauts, billionaire — and now trillionaire — rocket men, etc.
But the more important story is much less romantic: getting stuff into orbit got radical...
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