Monthly Archives: April 2011

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

The Final Rule of War

Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, has written a book focusing on the conclusion and post military developments of America’s wars  from WWI though the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.  If How Wars End has a common theme is

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The Snapshot Fallacy

Because wealth is accumulated over decades, it is highly misleading to draw conclusions from a snapshot of who owned what in any particular year.  A 2004 Business Week article about wealth said, “The top 10% of families, as measured by

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