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The Merchant in the Statehouse
A friend takes me to the Chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for Matins on a Sunday in cold and rainy January. Read →
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plz dont stop to enlighten us plebs. love your stuff
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And here is the enduring rub…who annoints this elite class of wisemen? Are we not all wisemen today with the homeless guy with a cellphone having access to more knowledge than the wisest Dutch merchant? The evil world of 1980 to 2020 referenced here was your world…the noblesse oblige of Yale and Goldman to serve their country with 100mm in the bank. No one in their right mind wants to step into this “post awful world” of politics except lawyers, non producing activists or true nutjobs. If you are asking.
And what this requires is a state that is commercially literate enough and accessible enough to business interests to direct intelligently, a business class that is civically invested enough to accept direction, and a democratic process robust enough to distinguish stewardship from self-dealing.
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Amsterdam Exchange (Beurs van Hendrick de Keyser) was built in 1611, not 1602. No?
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