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Bats and Brokers Looking for clues to explain Tuesday's market gyrations? Observe a bloodsucking mammal

The renewed  volatility in our tightly coupled financial system calls to mind a piece I wrote for TIME in 2000 during another period of extreme market upheaval. Here it is:

 

Quick! The market is crashing, and you are overextended, so where do you turn for help: a) y...

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Friday November 20, 2015

Why is it that the most gun-crazy states in the country are the most terrified of the prospect of taking in Syrian refugees? Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, all packed with citizens armed to the teeth, have governors scared witless by poor refugees who've been forced to flee by anarchy in their homelands. Didn't the NRA tell us that the only thing that stands between us and a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun? Maybe we need a good guy with a tank?

Meanwhile, Connecticut (once memorably derided as a "pussy state" by the Daily Show's Samantha Bee), with relatively strict gun control laws, seems to think it can handle the widows, orphans, and the 2% of military-aged males who find themselves without a country and seeking asylum.

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Short Take

QUICK AND EASY RECIPE TO BAKE AN INSTANT SOCIALIST

 

 

INGREDIENTS:

 

One cup Libertarian hi-tech entrepreneur

 

All the hi-tech company’s cash

 

One cup Silicon Valley Bank

 

Cooking Instructions:

 

Combine company cash and entrepreneur with Silicon Valley Bank and bake with low heat during the weekend after the bank collapsed.

 

Remove entrepreneur from oven Monday morning. If properly cooked, entrepreneur’s first words will be “government bailout.”

 

 

 

 



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