When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
This is from Bob Feldman:
During periods of U.S. establishment presidential transitions in the past, U.S. commercial banks have sometimes failed. Presidential Transitions, by Laurin Henry, describes, for example, what happened after the 1932 presidential election:
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