Tim Barker

Hi Willem, interesting piece! But I am confused by the statement that "yield curve control is not something the Fed has ever done"?

Yeah great book

For the deeper background of this strain of nationalist expansionism, I recommend the work of Bruce Cumings and this more recent paper by @psbenfordham:

I was blown away by the details on collaboration between Hampton and elements of the black political stratrum in Thomas Holt's fantastic Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction (esp. the last two chapters iirc)

A very good book on the 1940s is Howell Harris, The Right to Manage. Nelson L is on Twitter and might have other dieas

Yakov had a good post on this

Yes that essay is awesome

imo everything about the existence of this book is fascinating, Lange is definitely worth reading or reading about if you're interested in history of economics or socialism

important book. at least read a few reviews of it to get a sense of the argument - the idea is that the Confederate ruling class was able to enlist people with no interest in plantation slavery on their side b/c they saw abolition as a threat to their own small mastery