Monthly Archives: October 2011

Millennial recession poetry

Every so often you start reading generational sociology (I’m one of the very-tail-end-of-Gen-X people) and find a poem instead. the Greek ideal of “thumos”, which is the lust not for money or success (in the conventional sense) but the lust … Continue reading

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How to Learn About the Financial Crisis

Considering I went to business school to focus on marketing, this is a weird term. I’m taking Investments (the first finance course), Central Banking (an advanced macroeconomics course, taught by the former head of the German central bank, Axel Weber), … Continue reading

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