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  • The 700 Billion Dollar Bailout

    It feels like it's 1990 all over again. Remember 1990? The Savings and Loan Crisis? It's arguably what cost George H.W. Bush the 1992 election....

  • Two Books I Didn't Finish

    Friends, family, and the very small number of readers of this blog who do not fall into either of those two categories know that I...

  • World War Z

    World War Z: An Oral HIstory of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (2006). Three Rivers Press, 352 pages. I just love zombies. As...

  • In Defense of Elitism

    This being political season and all, I hear a lot these days about "elites" and "elitism". Apparently, to the media and to the majority of...

  • The Post-American World

    The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria (2008). W.W.Norton, 288 pages. A few days ago I was having lunch with my friend and colleague Frank...

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