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Has Finance Been Fixed

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November-December 2018 / Hard as it may be for a state so framed to be shaken, yet, since all that comes into being must decay, even a fabric like this will not endure forever, but will suffer dissolution. — Plato, The Republic Ten years on from the financial crisis (a.k.a Great Recession)—whose beginnings are officially measured from the collapse of Lehman Brothers—we need to take stock of the...

The Lies that Bind

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October 2018 / Inequality has now reached levels not seen since 1929, the year the Great Depression began, and stands to get even worse. — Chris Hughes, Fair Shot I recently attended a Community Board meeting having to do with Waterside Plaza in the Kips Bay section of Manhattan. For the uninitiated, Waterside Plaza was built on a landfill brought to the U.S. as ships’ ballast from the...

In the Belly of the Beast

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September 2018 / We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it. — Norman Mailer If I may be permitted to comment on national politics later in this piece, it’s because the real relevancy of it will become clearer as we plunge further into unchartered waters toward the...

Herbert Hoover’s Ghost

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August 2018 / When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. — Herbert Hoover The Trump administration made a big deal about restoring a bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office. But the politician they should have really been identifying with was Herbert Hoover. Never mind that Sarah Palin once accused the Obama administration of coddling enemies...

Missing Out on Oil’s Rise

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JUNE-JULY 2018 / A pity they both can’t lose. — comment on the Iran-Iraq War attributed to Henry Kissinger Despite Henry Kissinger’s almost poetic musings on the geopolitics of oil, the harsh reality remains that crude oil has risen around 10 percent in price since the beginning of 2018, far surpassing estimates of most oil experts in and out of Wall Street. Meanwhile, the business...

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