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A New Yorker fraud story that made me yell, “WOW!”
Not Silicon Valley Bank, oh no. Indeed, banking fuck-ups in the USA can’t be compared in (alleged) nefariousness to a German company called Wirecard. Because…what do we call a deliberate fuck-up, children? Massive fraud. In the March 6, 2023 New … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, Journalism, The Facts of Life
Tagged Ben Taub, Dan McCrum, Jan Marsalek, PayPal, Silicon Valley Bank, SVB, The New Yorker, Wirecard
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What happened from Jan 2017 to Jan 2021?
At 3 in the morning of November 9, 2016, I called my brother. “What do we do now?” I asked him. “Don’t worry about it,” he said. “It’s going to be fun.” One relative to whom I repeated that conversation … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, COVID-19, Fascism, Government, Jan 6, Law, suits and order, Mueller investigation, Politics, SCOTUS, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, The War On Workers, Trumpism
Tagged 187 minutes, Anthony Fauci, attack on the Capitol, COVID, Department of Labor, Eugene Scalia, Eyal Press, January 6 Committee Final Report, OSHA, The New Yorker, The White House, Trump administration
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Do not read this novel! Read the review
A thousand years ago, an Italian-American friend, a vehement partisan, told me I had to read the Great Italian Novel. Which I’d never heard of. As I said, she was vehement; there was no room for evasion. So I bought … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Facts of Life
Tagged Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Verdi, Guelphs and Ghibellines, I Promessi Sposi, Joan Acocella, The Betrothed, The Great Italian Novel, The New Yorker, The Verdi Requiem
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