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Too Much Money 2 Jul 2013 | 11:33 pm
From the vantage point of 2012, the main cause of the 2007 financial crash was globalization's creation of immense wealth, which lifted 500 million desperately poor people out of poverty. The gold rus...
Why Should Nation States Unite? 2 Jul 2013 | 12:59 am
<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/europe_common_marketmap2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Many nations in history have united, but almost always by military conquest. What is Am...
Government Organization 30 Jun 2013 | 08:42 am
Government Organization
..The Constitution 30 Jun 2013 | 08:41 am
Our Constitution was not a proclamation written by a convention. It was a negotiated contract for uniting thirteen sovereign independent states. Nothing like that had ever been done voluntarily, and f...
George Mason and Triumvirates 30 Jun 2013 | 08:36 am
George Mason, Washington's neighbor in Virginia, went to the Constitutional convention enthusiastic, but eventually refused to sign it. Maybe he preferred triumvirates.
Frank Furness,(3) Rush's Lancer 28 Jun 2013 | 03:32 am
<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/armymoh.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />One of Philadelphia's most famous architects had two notable exploits as a Civil War cavalry officer, on...
China Bubble 27 Jun 2013 | 09:38 pm
<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/map_of_china.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Poor nations don't know how to spend their money, so they save it. When they eventually spend their...
Headwaters of the Middle Atlantic Rivers 27 Jun 2013 | 09:37 pm
<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Delawarerivermap.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The three main rivers of the Mid-Atlantic states, the Hudson, Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers, ...
Societies and Clubs 27 Jun 2013 | 01:00 am
<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Holland%20Society.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Most of us recognize no difference between a Society, and a Club. But essentially, a club must...
Gas House, the Real Thing 27 Jun 2013 | 12:56 am
<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Gashouse_gang.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Gas Houses have disappeared, and what remains is Leo Durocher's phrase for the St. Louis Cardinals...
