May 10, 2012 Maxim
"It is relatively easy to default on sovereign debt when a substantial number of the bond holders are...
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March 22, 2012 Maxim
"The border has not always been a barrier and there is no reason to think that it will not become something else in the...
March 15, 2012 Maxim
"If you can't make yourself loved, make yourself feared." Mayer Amschel Rothschild Quoted by Niall Ferguson The...
Goodbye Britannica
This is a sad week for those of us who grew up loving books. The Encyclopedia Britannica is no longer going to be...
LA Public Library
Last month I went to the meeting of the California Map Society at the LA Public Library. It was my first visit inside...
March 8, 2012 Maxim
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." John Kenneth Galbraith American...
February 23, 2012 Maxim
"People have a tremendous capacity to rationalize, especially when infected by ideology." Eugene Genovese US...
February 2, 2012 Maxim
"In the centuries following the Peloponnesian War, Athens became the first in a long line of senescent Western powers...
January 26, 2012, Maxim
"...anyone who believes that governments are in control of economies is living in cloud-cuckoo-land." John Gribben,...
January 19, 2012 Maxim
"It is easier to wax elegiac for the life of a peasant when you do not have to use a long-drop toilet." Matt Ridley,...
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