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OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
by EBENEEZER SCROOGE

Mr. Scrooge is the chief executive officer of Scrooge and Marley.

I know the headline suggests you are about to read some necessary, real-world proposals to reform the predatory accounting, money-lending, and debt-collection industry in 1840s England. I really needed you to read this. How this op-ed is actually going to go is I am going to meander around the topic without direction like a dog circling its bed before flopping down, giving up, and expecting head pats.

Here we go. Let’s take a long walk for a short swim.

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Millions of Myanmar refugees could be next if Junta falls Almost as soon as Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane for the one-way journey to Moscow, European governments began folding up the welcome mats for Syrian refugees. On December 8, the Russian foreign ministry announced that Assad had been given asylum in the country. A day Continue reading »

Wang Jin-pyng says not to abandon “the opportunity for people on both sides to jointly pursue the well-being of the Chinese nation,” and respect the separate jurisdictions across the Strait. If world peace really hinges on, as many claim, what happens across the Taiwan Strait, you’ll have to bear with me for more posts on Continue reading »

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Can I be vulnerable with you for a second? I always believed we’d get back together.

Smallpox thought I was nuts. He kept telling me, “You’re delusional, bro.”

Rinderpest was similarly down about it. “They literally eradicated you.” I’m like, maybe look in the mirror when you say shit like that? Because I might be down, but I am not out.

And every time I talked about my comeback, Dracunculiasis rolled her eyes at me. “They all but wiped you out, man. It was one of the great successes of twentieth-century medicine.”

That was hard to hear. But I held on. I believe in manifesting. And I know you: You’re always saying that you’re over stuff that you aren’t REALLY over. You revive every franchise, and you reboot all your television shows. You “quit” social media. Look at high-rise jeans. And also low-rise jeans. Pretty much every rise of jeans. You count them out, and then—bam—just when you’ve finally cleaned them out of your closet, they’re back in fashion again. That’s why, despite everything, I’ve stayed optimistic.

I saw this rather revealing tweet recently:

Andreessen, if you don’t know, made his money during the dot-com boom, at Mozilla. He then formed a venture capital firm, Andreessen-Horowitz.

Now what’s interesting about this tweet is the word “guilt.”

Andreessen doesn’t want to feel guilt. He doesn’t like the idea that one should run society to try and do the most good for the most people.

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Om man i en demokrati skall överlåta viktiga beslut till experter bör detta bygga på att det faktiskt existerar en någorlunda säkerställd kunskap hos den kår av experter som skall fatta besluten. När det gäller penningpolitiken visar den omfattande debatten inom ekonomkåren att så inte är fallet. Man kan jämföra det rådande kunskapsläget inom penningpolitiken […]

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