Big economic storms are rare and usually end quickly, but they tend to have long-lasting effects. Today I want to talk about a storm 50 years ago that still affects us now. Important things happened in the 1970s.
Read moreModern technology is amazing but our ancient forebears built some wondrous things, too. Long-ago historians organized them into “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.” (Of course, their “world” was the Mediterranean and Middle East. Other wonders existed elsewhere.)
Read moreI have been writing for many years that the US in particular and the Western “developed” world in general were approaching a time where none of our choices would be good.
Read moreBroken lines, broken strings,
Broken threads, broken springs,
Broken idols, broken heads,
People sleeping in broken beds
—Bob Dylan, “Everything is Broken” from the album Oh Mercy, 1989
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