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Weaponing Food

…Assistance Program. This purposeful. During the pandemic, Snap Food Cards were sent to people. Tru_p needs program cut to balance out the tax breaks. During Covid provision was made to…

Has it begun?

…order to prevent investors from panicking on Monday about the ability of Bear Stearns to make good on billions of dollars in trading commitments. In a potentially even bigger move,…

Stuff and nonsense, or does it make sense

The Wellesley Dump has expanded even more to date. It is not my town, but is remarkable. Wellesley’s recycling program was started in 1971 by local environmentalists and the Department…

Paul Volcker Feb.20

…sponsoring hedge funds and equity funds and from engaging in a great volume of proprietary trading–those things that their management has loved to do in recent years. And it got…