Debt, War, and the Tangled Web
Mark Thornton opens with Sir Walter Scott’s famous “tangled web” line, using John Law’s Mississippi Bubble and Richard Cantillon’s response to frame today’s financial disorder: national debt, a bond bear market, dollar manipulation, trade war, stock-market fragility, and overseas conflicts.
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On Side B, Thornton discusses the Fed’s first rate hike in three years, the debt trap facing the Treasury market, the energy shock from the…
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