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The Company and the Colony

Posted on November 23, 2025 by mghachem

Here is an interview about my new book, The Company and the Colony, for the “Freedom Now” program with Gerald Horne on KPFK radio, first broadcast on November 22, 2025. Thank you to Professor Horne for the invitation.

Posted in Haiti, Interviews, Money, Finance, and Debt, Race and Racism, Slavery, Writings | Tagged debt, finance, Haiti, Jesuits, maroons, Mississippi Bubble, slavery

“The Real Intervention Haiti Needs”

Posted on September 25, 2023 by mghachem

My piece for Foreign Policy on the crisis in Haiti and its relationship to the history of debt and monetary policy can be found in English here, and in French here.

Posted in Haiti, Money, Finance, and Debt, Race and Racism, Slavery, Writings | Tagged 1825 indemnity, debt, finance, Haiti, monetary policy, reparations, restitution, slavery

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Header images: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, for the American Declaration of Independence; Musée Carnavalet, Paris, for the 1789 painting by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen); New York Public Library, for the 1801 Constitution of Saint-Domingue (Haiti); Le Petit Matin de Tunisie, Aug. 31, 1963, for the headline about my father, Said H. Ghachem.  Hosting service: scripts.mit.edu (run by MIT’s Student Information Processing Board).

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