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...excesses since the second World War. Certainly in the financial community what the governments are doing - they're making mistakes. In 1929 we had the stock market bubble pop, which was leading to a recession, but then the politicians all over the world made a lot of mistakes and turned what should have been a normal recession into a depression. I see the politicians making mistakes now, which may turn this into much much worse than it should be. The Federal Reserve and Treasury have more than doubled the American debt in the past three months...
...touch, was the new gardener who had just been clasping Frederick’s supine form so possessively moments before. He did not notice her presence at first, and she watched in horror as he cast aside the spade and plunged his large, raw hands savagely into the freshly turned soil, over and over. Dirt flew from the holes he dug and sullied the pale, delicately veined petals of her petunias.He reached into a pouch that hung from his belt, and his red fist emerged full of seeds. He thrust them into the soil, and she gasped in sudden fury...
...Hill kind of revolution is Friedman arguing for? Something is afoot, and it isn’t fluorescent lightbulbs or recycling. “Flat” is innocuous enough, but “Hot?” “Crowded?” I turn nervously to the back flap. There’s Friedman, his moustache a hairy smear across his upper lip. Dude looks like a 70s swinger. DECLARE YOURSELF: SPEAK, CONNECT, ACT, VOTE by Declare Yourself This book, aimed at teenagers, includes essays by 50 people on the importance of democratic participation. Apparently, Tyra Banks...
...reach for seconds. I’ve nibbled pickled jellyfish and chomped on wild boar. Squeamishness, clearly, is not something I’ve been accused of. But John Barlow’s latest food travelogue, “Everything But the Squeal,” rarely fails to turn my stomach—and I suspect he’d take this as a compliment. “Squeal,” Barlow’s third food-writing venture, catalogues his quest to eat the whole hog in a yearlong journey through Galicia—a rain-battered...
...rise of contemporary dance music in the UK, I prefer to think of it as representative of the trickle-down theory of music. That is, new or unheard music heard first by chemically dependent night owls is eventually passed down to more sober friends the next morning, who in turn send it to friends, and so on. You don’t have to be a fan of house and techno, however, to get a great deal out of these shows. This is because the track listings for these mixes are available online.Justice’s Essential...