August 2011
3 posts
How to Get $12 Billion of Gold to Venezuela →
Felix Salmon ponders an interesting problem: how to move $12 billion in gold from England to Venezuela.
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Researchers have found that lower income individuals become more opposed to programs designed to help them if people they perceive as below them will also be helped. I…
A Modest Proposal, Cont. →
On a less satirical note, a lot of my discontent with our narrative of gentrification doesn’t come from a lack of sympathy for the poor and working class of black America. On the contrary, it comes…