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As Wood saw it, Cuba wouldn’t be pacified until it had a stable government. And what was a stable government? One in which “money can be borrowed at a reasonable rate of interest” and “capital is willing to invest” was Wood’s definition.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
The financial crisis of 2008 was precipitated in part by a series of market events that had been deemed extremely unlikely, as if every player in a casino drew blackjack all night.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
It cannot be repeated enough that while electric cars are an important harm reduction strategy for our climate crisis, the effort will do absolutely nothing to slow the other global crisis that’s killing over a million people every year: the traffic violence pandemic.
Four Reasons to Hold Your Applause for Automakers’ Big EV Promises
Kea Wilson
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