Abraham Lincoln

In March 1981 Ronald Reagan defied an assassin’s bullet and went on to lead America for another seven years. Did the President also dodge something more powerful than a gun? Did the Gipper survive and even break the Curse of Tippercanoe? On 7 November 1811, US army forces led by William Henry Harrison, then Governor of the Indiana Territory, defeated the Shawnee Confederacy of Native Americans […]

Did Ronald Reagan break the Curse of Tippecanoe?

Old fashioned economic stimulus has a new name for the twenty-first century. Concepts such as Keynesianism, state intervention and pump priming have been replaced by quantitative easing. According to Bob McTeer, quantitative easing is “different from traditional monetary policy only in its magnitude and pre-announcement of amount and timing.” And if we accept quantitative easing is not so very far removed from traditional monetary policy, it […]