Tag Archives: Lya Graf

passing the buck

The equal sharing of misery? Hang the rich? The first idea is that inequality is an issue that all of us need to be concerned with.Or, it has always been there but slightly below the radar in our “to do” … Continue reading

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pie in the sky: for all the marbles

It was supposed to be in the name of truth and justice.It was a dog and pony show like those found in the small circuses wandering over the English countryside at the end of the nineteenth century. It  keeps coming … Continue reading

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ADAM SMITH & PONZI NATION: WEALTH OF RATIONS

Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776 – not as a textbook, but as a polemical cannon aimed at governments that were subsidizing and protecting their merchants, their farmers, their manufacturers, against “unfair” competition, at home or from … Continue reading

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Who Moved The Cheese.

In business terminology Luck= A Prepared Mind. However, when you make the rules and shape the outcome, luck can become the normal, even banal. Matt Taibbi’s reporting in Rolling Stone, ”The Great American Bubble Machine”, is like a bad rash, … Continue reading

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