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The Great American Bubble Machine

August 11th, 2010 by Phil Harrison | No Comments | Tags: , , ,

This article first appeared in the Rolling Stone a couple of years ago, but is still vital reading – a brilliant expose on how financial markets have helped orchestrate, and made good from, the recent (and previous) crises.  Nothing of how the world works can be adequately understood without grasping the nettle of financial markets, [...]

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How prosperity evolves…or doesn’t.

August 4th, 2010 by Phil Harrison | No Comments | Tags: , ,

Great piece by John Gray on the nonsense of Matt Ridley’s (former Northern Rock chairman) new book continuing to laud free markets.  http://tinyurl.com/2aork7g

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