Archive for September 2, 2009

What is enough? Part 2: banking

This morning my email brought me a thoughtful article that referenced an eye-popping article, “The Quiet Coup” by Simon Johnson,  I read back in May in the Atlantic Monthly. This morning’s email referenced a section critiquing the “too big to fail” argument for the bailout. Too big to fail. Isn’t that the corporate version of not knowing when enough is enough, when smaller might be better and less might increase well being? Challenging our own attachment to “more-is-better” gives us a front row seat (more…)

September 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM Leave a comment


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