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The Madness of Money

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By Frederick Kaufman
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To make sense of the world, we need Big Think books: books that help us navigate the twisted mess of history, books that elucidate difficult ideas, books that can guide us through the morass of present-day predicaments. Such a book was Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World,which not only illuminated the arcane subject of central banking but also revealed the deep grammar and syntax of money. It won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.
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Marriage Contracts - Tablet Magazine

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By Frederick Kaufman
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June! The month that honors Juno, ancient Roman goddess of marriage, fertility, and childbirth. It is the month when flowers bloom, dragonflies dance, and newlyweds assess their haul of Cartier decanters, Christofle cheese boards, and envelopes stuffed with cash. Rarely mentioned, but not far removed from June’s romantic haze, lie the worst case scenarios, as in—what would happen if all those joyous unions were to go off the rails?
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Solid Gold Gangsters

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By Frederick Kaufman
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Forty-seventh Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Manhattan is a good place to sell gold. Not in the ground-floor bazaars, with their great, glittering display cases, but up the flights of the ancient buildings, behind the nondescript, buzzer-locked brown doors, where the old-timers and insiders dwell. It was a rainy, dreary, dismal morning when I entered one such building, passed the requisite “All visitors must show ID” sign—the guard sound asleep—and made my way upstairs.
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