So it is with impeccable timing that about 3 weeks ago I started listening to John Kenneth Galbraith’s “The Great Crash: 1929.” (Indeed, I wish I had similar impeccable timing when planning my RRSP, 401k and stock purchases). Obviously the events of the last week, and more precisely the events of yesterday make this essential [...]
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The Great Crash vs. Emergence (re-mixed)
Welcome to the neo-progressive revolution?
Wow. This is bolder than I had been willing to go. But Umair Haque is some else who gets the bigger picture about what Taylor and I were trying to talk about in our piece on neo-progressives. Big h/t to Michael Anton Dila whom it was great to meet this weekend. Related posts WordClouding Harper, [...]
Sicko – I laughed, I cried, but I didn’t think
I saw Sicko on Sunday night. No doubt, Michael Moore makes a fun movie. Clearly the US health insurance system is broken. It is, in all honesty, an embarrassment – a fact Moore ruthlessly exploits to great effect. That said, I nonetheless left the theater vaguely unsatisfied. I think it is because there is virtually [...]
Sicko – I laughed, I cried, but I didn't think
I saw Sicko on Sunday night. No doubt, Michael Moore makes a fun movie. Clearly the US health insurance system is broken. It is, in all honesty, an embarrassment – a fact Moore ruthlessly exploits to great effect. That said, I nonetheless left the theater vaguely unsatisfied. I think it is because there is virtually [...]
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