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Archive: 2008

Unknown bards

The blues becomes transparent about itself

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The Botch

The idea is to tap into the old traditions, guns waving, eyes behind balaclavas—just one more bank heist breaking the tedium of an Ohio afternoon, leaving nothing but bewilderment, the…

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Dreaming XXL

For the African-American market, bootleg shirts stretch Obama's image

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Useful amateurs

How the smearing of Barack Obama got crowd-sourced

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Plan

Can Capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can. —Joseph Schumpeter, 1942 The problem is not how to save capitalism but how to save the unique and successful mixed…

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Protect Financial Consumers

Go into any appliance store in America and look for a toaster with a one-in-five chance of exploding. You won’t find one. But at any mortgage brokerage in the country…

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November 2008

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