The origins of Wall Street are tied to Alexander Hamilton's plans for the financing of the new nation and the funding of its debt. The two hundredth anniversary of Wall Street in 1992 occasioned many retrospectives that owe more to mythology than to historical veracity. Wall Street's earliest...

European monetary union and a single currency are at the heart of the 1991 Maastricht Treaty that transformed the European Community into a European Union. Were the financial plans too ambitious? What are the costs and benefits of a single currency and a uniform monetary policy? This article...