If things must go awry, let that happen in a sudden rush. A true disaster is only appreciated when the toilet floods, house lighting fails, and there is a roof fire. Then you have a mess the neighbors will appreciate, and grandchildren can recall years after the homeowner is dead and buried.
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As most of you saw last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren grilled Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, calling him to resign and face criminal charges for his ‘negligence.’ Over 5,300 employees of Wells Fargo were found creating false accounts […]
Now that the global tally of negative-interest debt issued has passed the $10 trillion mark, it might be worth taking a moment to reflect the yet unknown implications posed by the intrusion of…reality.
Interest rates in the EU, Switzerland, Japan, and now Germany have dipped […]
As the face of their respective political parties, each boasts a distinctive pedigree: the former a career politician who consistently shows […]
Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
—Dante Alighieri, “The Inferno”
A somewhat paradoxical title for an article. For how can “fear” (from the protoGermanic feraz or “danger”), understood as intrinsically unsettling, disruptive, or even paralyzing in both its chilling transitive and dark majestic […]