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Business
The Steve Hanke interview: “Writing a tweet is the endgame of the Feynman Technique”
The veteran economist joins Big Think to unpack the new rules of social media, explain tariffs, and recount his adventures in Albania.
Mike Hodgkinson
inflation
Strange Maps
It could be worse: 5 countries have triple-digit inflation
Guess which country has 269% inflation.
Frank Jacobs
The Present
One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a spectacular failure
There's enough evidence to conclude president Bukele had no idea what he was doing.
John Hawkins
The Present
This is why the US dollar is a potent sanctions weapon — for now
A clear alternative has yet to emerge.
John Letzing
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