For over 150 years, these metrics have perfectly foreshadowed trouble to come for Wall Street and/or the U.S. economy.

As a child, I read the word “palimpsest”. I did not understand it, but instinctively I liked it. It sounded mysterious.

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From politicians and political dissidents to civil rights activists to a Nobel prize-winning physicist, the world said ...