Back in October 2009, I wrote the following:* “Despite the “neon” warning that: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God[1] most of us, in our fondest dreams, wish we were smitten with riches and that we […]
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(All indented quotes are found in Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor, © 1999, A Plume Book, pp. 59, 67, 67, 69, 76, 77, 92.) In memory of the birth of the South Sea Company (in 1711 – 300 years ago), Deja Vu Times recycles a few comments/quotes from
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(P-Con = sketch-stories exploring the déjà vu of Power, Publicity, PR, & Propoganda Concerns.) This sketch-story was inspired while watching “Donald Trump’s Golf War” documentary, aired on “The Passionate Eye” – CBC News Network, Sunday, March 20, 2011; available for ONLY a limited time at http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2011/golfwar/
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~ http://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2009/08/ten-dictates-practicalities-of-laissez.htmlhttp://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2010/06/yes-we-get-it.html
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~ (Laissez-faire style) ~ Adam Smith: The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To widen the market
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~ ————–/Adam Smith: When masters combine together in order to reduce the wages of their workmen, they commonly enter into a private bond or agreement not to give more than a certain wage under a certain penalty. Were the workmen to enter into a contrary combination of the same kind, not to accept of a
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Several years ago, my sister asked if I remembered the book, Who Ate My Cheese? Well, we had a good laugh for the book by Spencer Johnson was named, Who Moved My Cheese?1 Now, in light of our (cyclical) economic times, my sister’s mistake seems not so mistaken—that the real (déjà vu) story in this
Who ate my cheese?! Read More »