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Money and Power: Historical Lessons for Stablecoins and U.S. Dollar Dominance
Economics Working Paper 26126
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John Cochrane analyzes how a lack of market forces have impeded everything from the development of a COVID vaccine, to its distribution, to efforts to get the economy reopened.
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