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Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?

Adam Gopnik The New Yorker
Our history too often sidesteps the question of finances. But sonorous ideals don’t keep an army supplied with uniforms, guns, and grub.

The Fed Is Quietly Bailing Out Wall Street

Luke Goldstein, Freddy Brewster Jacobin
The Federal Reserve has quietly delivered nearly half a trillion dollars to Wall Street with few strings attached over the past few months. These cash infusions could signal instability in the broader financial sector.

How the First Black Bank Was Looted

Dale Kretz Jacobin
In the early days of the Gilded Age’s rush for profit, freed people’s savings were siphoned off by politically connected financiers. Justene Hill Edwards’s Savings and Trust uncovers how finance cloaked dispossession in the language of uplift.

Friday Nite Videos | February 14, 2025

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