Tag: writing
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1929-A Christmas of Hope and Doubt
No one, I suspect, will ever explain totally satisfactorily the Great Crash of 1929. It occurred , more or less, in late October(bad month for the market) and wiped out trillions(maybe billions?) of dollars of invested wealth. Many books have been written on this from John Kenneth Galbraith’s “The Great Crash” about 2 generations ago,…
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An Open Letter to Michael Smerconish
Dear Michael, First of all, I am a fan who rarely misses one of your telecasts and who thinks the people who denounce you as being a toady of one side or the other are full of crap. That established, I need to dissent from some–not all-you had to say about college education recently. For…
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