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waste not want more

The insatiability of human desire.Moral Hazards. Too big too fail. Systematic Risk. Kicking the can down the road. These are all the fashion buzzwords use to describe and old phenomenon first articulated by Thorstein Veblen back in the days of … Continue reading

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Is advertising destructive? Its an almost half-a-trillion dollar a year business. All for the sake of peddling goods and services. When you think about the societal allocation of resources; basically to reinforce and expand consumerism and establish rank and status … Continue reading

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