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A safety checklist for America during the ebola panic. #1: Look for cowardice.

By / 8 Comments / 13 August 2019

Summary: The ebola panic should remind us about one of the great questions of our time. When did Americans become cowards? Previous generations of Americans faced threats far greater than anything we face today, yet did so without the hysteria that sweeps America each year about a new doom (worse, they’re coming more quickly). What …

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How the 1% runs America. Runs us. The answer points to 2 futures for us.

By / 17 Comments / 5 July 2018

Summary:  How does the 1% influence the daily running of America? Not the high level politics and business, but the broad influence on our social institutions which is almost as significant. The answer says much about America, the New America quickly rising around us, and how to save what we have before it’s lost. . …

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Learning not to trust each other in America, and not to trust America

By / 15 Comments / 4 December 2013

Summary: Strong social cohesion distinguishes successful from failed States, and has long been a strength of America. A side effect of the 1%’s successful programs to build a New America on the ruins of the America-that-Once-Was is erosion of our social cohesion. From that, should it continue, we can expect bitter fruit. Today we look …

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Why don’t we see the New America being built around us?

By / 60 Comments / 2 December 2013

Summary:  The Internet has become increasingly dominated by engines of misinformation disseminating politically filtered views of the world largely consisting of errors of omission and exaggeration, plus outright lies. These suit a nation of sheep (how do you speak to sheep and children?). The daily thousand words on the FM website attempt something different, to …

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Visions of the future: Adam Posen asks what the world might look like if the 1% wins.

By / 1 Comment / 21 April 2015

Summary:  A brilliant economist sees the future as a triumphalist continuation of today’s trends, a return to the past of the Gilded Age.  Posen asks the big question, one long discussed on the FM website: has the post-WW2 era ended, and what will follow. It’s worth careful consideration. “What the return of 19th century economics …

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