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Wall Street's latest poison: Leveraged EFTs

Ludwig von Mises Institute 

Just as Wall Street created products to participate in the housing boom (subprime mortgages, mortgage backed securities, credit derivatives), the industry now has triple leveraged ETFs to satisfy the public’s gambling appetite.

Crossing to Safety

The New York Review of Books 

During her thousands of hours of training and her marathon open-water crossings, the American swimmer Diana Nyad sang songs in her head. She did this to help pace her strokes, monitor distance, and pass the time while “trapped in the solitary confinement of that protracted monotony.” By Nyad’s count, 210 repetitions of “Ticket to Ride” […]

The Sneaky Sublime

The New York Review of Books 

The Chicago artist Christina Ramberg recontextualized things made for another purpose, transforming the unremarkable into funny, stately, and transgressive forms.



‘Hamlet’ in the West Bank

The New York Review of Books 

In Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost, an intrepid group of Palestinians stages Shakespeare’s tale of usurpation, suspicion, and revenge.

A Tenuous Mandate

The New York Review of Books 

Labour’s landslide victory in the British elections was achieved with only a third of the popular vote. Will the new government be able to steer Britain out of crisis after fourteen years of failed Tory policies?

Abraham

The New York Review of Books 

And then underneath the black strip on the canvas isa small light. I used to think the black strip was the actual painting. Now I think it’s what the black stripis covering. The covering is impossible. No matter how wide the strip is, light shines through. Somevistas just do. Barnett Newman threw most of his […]

In Search of the Real Hannah Crafts

The New York Review of Books 

In 2002 a newly published and soon-to-be best-selling novel made front-page headlines—and no wonder. Acerbic and witty, nuanced and astute, The Bondwoman’s Narrative by “Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Slave Recently Escaped from North Carolina,” was evidently the first novel by a Black woman to provide a chronicle of slavery from the inside. Years earlier the […]

A Sternly Witty Sensualist

The New York Review of Books 

On entering “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” at the Met last year, I was at first reduced to nouns and adjectives. I was overcome with description. An ensemble of an overdress and underdress for Chanel Autumn/Winter 2002–2003. The overdress, in a dark gray cashmere knit, is as formally cinched as a suit jacket. The […]

Yearning for Redemption

The New York Review of Books 

Kingsley Ben-Adir’s performance as Bob Marley in One Love is seductive, but but in treating the singer as a savior, the film loses sight of his complexity.

Imagine the Atlantic as an Actor

The New York Review of Books 

running lines. He tries out emphasisas if dropping stones in a rockpool(I sink. I sink. I sink.) and plays alongwith a smoky grin or countermanding fist. Imagine him walking his soliloquyover the bar of the man-made poolpast cue-card, prompter, stage markand off, quite simply, off into the wings. Just ripples of applause, he thinks,nothing to […]

Siding with Ahab

The New York Review of Books 

In literature as in life, significant birthdays are occasions for both celebration and reassessment. Herman Melville’s two hundredth birthday happened to just precede the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The house arrest of so many readers for an indeterminate period resulted in many social changes, among them the sudden proliferation of book groups meeting on […]

All the News That’s Fit to Feel

The New York Review of Books 

For the last century and a half the American female journalist has existed in a state of double consciousness. She could never report the news without her existence as a reporter being regarded as newsworthy, either an emblem of the profession’s progress or proof of its fall. In a gendered version of what W.E.B. Du […]

Savior Complexes

The New York Review of Books 

On July 13, after Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the world saw the difference between presence of mind and absence of mind. Trump, who was shot in the right ear, gave an extraordinary demonstration of the first of these qualities. He flinched as he felt the bullet. […]

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Wall Street's latest poison: Leveraged ETFs

Ludwig von Mises Institute 

Just as Wall Street created products to participate in the housing boom (subprime mortgages, mortgage backed securities, credit derivatives), the industry now has triple leveraged ETFs to satisfy the public’s gambling appetite.

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