PRIMO NUTMEG #160: Lawrence H. White

Lawrence H. White is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, as well as a professor of economics at George Mason University.

On the show we discuss free banking, the gold standard, the Bank of England, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, the First and Second Banks of the United States, the so-called "free banking era," and how the Federal Reserve has reshaped the US economy over the past century.