David Beckworth
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Senior Research Fellow @mercatus || Podcast Host at https://t.co/gGaA18fTY2 || Former U.S. Treasury Economist || Micah 6:8
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Superb paper by Josh Hendrickson on the history of our current global monetary order, the Treasury Standard
He argues, contra the orthodoxy, that the 'Treasury Standard is the direct result of U.S. policymakers’ desire for the U.S. to maintain global hegemonic power, especially in…