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Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are solely the opinion of the writer and not the Daily Journal. Pope Francis’s funeral did not mean the end of my admiration for this uncommon leader. I am rereading two ...

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HISTORY MATTERS. By David McCullough. Edited By Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill. Simon and Schuster. 176 pages. $27. Popular historian David McCullough, who died in 2022, was a master of the ...

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In the US, the Beige Book is quite the sobering read - littered with tariff risk talk and at best flattish activity. Treasuries did not do a whole lot on the back of that, partly as it had already ...