Credit and Credibility
Are banks crazy or a cartel? When a government (let us say, in Athens) could possibly renege on promises made to banks who loaned them money or bought their bonds, which that government is unable to...
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A perennial topic of public discussion ever since my childhood has been the sellout our not of the formerly revolutionary former youth of the Baby Boom. The false premise here is that they were the...
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It has often been remarked that, whereas the English word “debt” has a long history as primarily a financial term, with only optional moralistic overtones, in German “debt” and “guilt” and “sin” are...
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(Free parking) A proposal for a partial unified theory of Trump scandals. There has been considerable speculation about whether Donald Trump’s $916 million loss from 1995 may be something other than...
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