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zombie banking: deposit at your risk

Early on in the financial crisis, economic opinion from the like of Krugman, Stiglitz et al.  warned that the greatest danger of the bailouts was the creation of  zombie banks. Essentially cadavers, near cadavers with a faint pulse in a … Continue reading

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MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED

The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading

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