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New York State Needs a War on Poverty

A few months ago Arthur Levitt–Bloomberg groupie, former SEC Chairman, and quintessential Wall Street liberal—interviewed Grover Norquist, anti-tax activist and bête noire of Wall Street liberals. At the end of the interview Levitt asked “Grover, do you think it is … Continue reading

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Skip Piketty; Read Easterly

Here’s all you need to know about the most popular, least read, business book of the year. In his ponderous, repetitive, tedious, tortuous, tendentious, repetitive tome on the evils of inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty, in the … Continue reading

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In China Gray is the New Green

I usually wake up around 3:30 to catch the market action in Asia and Europe on Bloomberg and CNBC. It’s nice to get a non-U.S. perspective on all the craziness. Last night I was blown away by this exchange on … Continue reading

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