Richard Vague

Richard Vague is the former Secretary of Banking and Securities for Pennsylvania, and former CEO of Energy Plus, Juniper Financial, and First USA Bank. He is the author of An Illustrated Business History of the United States, The Case for a Debt Jubilee, A Brief History of Doom, and the Paradox of Debt. Learn more at richardvague.com. 

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Tech trumps tariffs

05/07/2025

Richard Vague advises Donald Trump to stop charging around and do some research. The US has had a particularly woeful trade deficit since the 1980s, and this article will consider

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The debt ceiling melodrama

25/03/2023

US federal debt has its limits. Richard Vague tells the tale. One of the great melodramas of American politics erupts in Washington when the federal debt approaches its statutory limit and

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Broken China 

01/01/2023

The world’s second largest economy may have reached its zenith, says Richard Vague. China failed to deliver anything close to its historically-robust growth in the September 2022 quarter, with 3.9%

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