Nathan Tankus — The Euro as Idealist Project or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pragmatic Elites

Nice post by Nathan. Something you need to know historically that Nathan doesn't mention is that the US federal government initially financed itself largely with revenue from tariffs rather than taxation, which was left to the states. Naked Capitalism The Euro as Idealist Project or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pragmatic Elites Nathan Tankus, a member of Occupy Wall Street Alternative Banking working group. He is also deeply involved in the heterodox economics community and plans to have a PhD in economics before the decade is done. Cross posted with View From the Metropole.