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NDd and Marketwatch

…Friday morning,” the blogger writes. Any big Brexit-related damage to the U.K. currency has already happened, New Deal Democrat argues. It didn’t happen over three months to a year, but…

Labor Conditions in Colonial America

…their wages are from two shillings to 3, 4, and 5 shillings per Diem this currency.” Today’s Planters, er, farmers sympathize. Of course, today’s outrage is that workers get paid…

The IMF’s Flexible Credit Line

…were vulnerable to currency volatility as manifested by exchange market pressure. On the “supply side,” the IMF was willing to accept them into the program because 1—the economies were not…