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  • Monday, March 01, 2010

    Why America is the Most Depressed Nation on Earth

    It’s kind of incongruous to be the world’s most prosperous nation but also its most depressed. According to the Washington Post America consumes three quarters of the earth’s anti-depressants, with one out of three women popping Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil. What makes the phenomenon even ...

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  • Friday, January 08, 2010

    Mortgage Ignominy at JP Morgan Chase

    In the heart of New York City, if you listen closely, you’ll hear a severe sucking sound, as if some magical and invisible vortex is pulling in all that surrounds it. Amazingly, it doesn’t swallow up your scarf, your briefcase, or muss you hair. It does, however, pluck every last ...

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  • Monday, December 28, 2009

    The Alternate-Reality Decade

    If you would have invested one hundred dollars in the stock market in January of 2000, by December of 2009 it would be worth just ninety. This has led some writers to describe the past ten years as the lost decade. I disagree. Loss assumes an unconscious act of forgetfulness. This, by contrast, ...

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  • Friday, December 11, 2009

    The Great (and Imperfect) Hope That Is Chabad

    Back when I was serving as a Chabad emissary at Oxford University, the great British philosopher Isaiah Berlin, who had befriended me, once told me that while he admired my work bringing Jewish students closer to their tradition, he was utterly opposed to the large menorah I erected in the city ...

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