Bronze Age societies forgave agricultural debt to keep cultivators working on their land, able to pay taxes and work in the military and on public projects. Lenders were seen as greedy and exploitative.
Read more...Why is the media covering up that Deval Patrick became wealthy via asset-stripping at Bain Capital?
Read more...My inability to place an online order at Powell’s Books despite multiple attempts says something is very wrong.
Read more...Why the worries about the US budget deficit and China buying Treasuries are overblown.
Read more...Hope you can join our Birmingham meetup!
Read more...Labour wants to play a game of chicken with May over Brexit.
Read more...Politicizing the SWIFT payments system is leading other nations to the search for alternatives to the dollar.
Read more...How a reader documenting a horse dump problem in Chicago’s Loop led to a clean-up.
Read more...Until 2008, rising home values gave the middle class a cushion amid growing income inequality. But following the financial crisis, that wealth has failed to return.
Read more...Why debt unforgiveness is the original and incurable curse on our post-eighth-century-B.C. Western Civilization,
Read more...More evidence that Amazon is nasty.
Read more...CalPERS is flailing about with its private equity “new business model.”
Read more...Hope to see you folks in the Birmingham area next week at our meetup.
Read more...Fake unicorns are a real problem for the venture capital industry.
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