half way to a lost decade

passive ownership shares plus .....debt

profit failure

let's narrow our focus to that sub set of market failures that are purely a product of our social formation
ie profit failures

fellow clown college alum

http://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/speeches/2011/dud110607.html

expatiate free o'er all this scene of man

a mighty maze

 but caught without a plan

mandel estimate from last year

**My preliminary and tentative calculations–which I reserve the right to revise or completely repudiate at any moment–suggest that roughly  15% of every retail spending dollar flows overseas.  However, my preliminary and tentative calculations also suggest that 25-30% of the goods we buy are made overseas. **

mandel moment on usury switch off