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There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Posted on December 27, 2011 by MN Gordon

By all accounts the sky was falling on December 5, 2008.  Several months before, credit market liquidity had glazed over like cold winter molasses and, after over 150-years of business, Lehman Brothers had ignominiously vanished from the face of the … Continue reading →

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Requiem for a Dictator: Kim Jong-il

Posted on December 23, 2011 by MN Gordon

There are places on the face of the earth where, although the sun may occasionally shine, they’ve never seen a ray of light.  There’s a cold dry Siberian no man’s land that extends east from the Ural Mountains to the … Continue reading →

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How to Catch Fate’s Fortune

Posted on December 20, 2011 by MN Gordon

Believing In an Absurdity [Editor’s note: Today’s Economic Prism is an excerpt of remarks made by Direct Expressions’ President and Founder MN Gordon at the annual company holiday party held last Saturday at the 555 East Steakhouse.] “Fate throws fortune, but … Continue reading →

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Change We Can Believe In: Soak the Rich

Posted on September 27, 2011 by MN Gordon

Sometime in early 1848 French poet Alphonse de Lamartine had a change of appetite.  For whatever reason, he no longer took to gobbling up frog legs but to gobbling up the new, forward thinking, ideas of the day. It all … Continue reading →

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