Transcending the Fear Syndrome

Reflections on ‘9/29’ Have you noticed that the media is quick to deliver information about the next scourge or menace that we should brace ourselves for, quick to offer hope for a possible solution, but slow to present real ones? The net result of this syndrome is that “bated” listeners, readers, and viewers are put “on alert”… and they stay…

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The Bailout: Makes No Sense to Me

IF the American People don’t want a bailout, then congress should be looking at, and seriously discussing options that don’t include one. It should be exploring how the economy, and some would say, “the market,” would adjust and restructure itself in a post-collapse world. Instead of taking patronizing position (“There there America, you don’t know what you’re doing.”), the presidential…

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