After the 2008 financial crisis in the United State —  the result of Wall Street bundling bad mortgages together and selling them as investments — writer Michael Lewis wrote, The Big Short, a best seller about what happened.  Primarily, he focused on the few canny invest

Not long ago, I had an exchange with an attorney who corrected my use of the  words tactics and strategy.  I replied his distinction was without a difference and pointed out the English Oxford Dictionary (OED) recognized the words as synonyms.   Lawyerly language, as my attorney fr

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