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The Solomon Scandals

Ah, yes! To the Flemish Cap, Speaker Boehner!

David Rothman July 16, 2011July 17, 2011 0 comment

Film as perfect budget-crisis metaphor? As generic rhetoric, some in Washington may talk of  a “perfect storm” of chaos in the American and global financial markets if Republicans and Democrats don’t raise the debt ceiling by August 2. I myself, however, am thinking precisely of the book and movie title based on the meteorological term—yes, […]

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