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We live in a golden age of stupidity, and it is a source of endless amusement for those capable of surmounting or ignoring the horror it initially inspires. By stupidity, I mean here not ignorance or mental ineptitude but the flamboyant productions of inadequate minds determined to apprehend matters far exceeding their capacity. We might call it “creative stupidity” to distinguish it from stupidity as a simple shortcoming. I think of my relative who learned the term “fiat money” and could not go a day without repeating it, convinced that the abandonment of the gold standard was an unpardonable fiduciary sin he was tasked with revealing to the world after discovering it on YouTube; of the helpful coronavirus hints that pullulate on WhatsApp, generally sent by people prone to deriding doctors and virologists as clueless; or of Frazzledrip, which I might never have heard of but for the rise of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who represents the district I grew u
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I first became a Wall Street correspondent 34 years ago, after Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987. An element in that day’s panic was an undertow of concern about ballooning public spending. A debt clock loomed over Times Square, alarming passersby, its flickering red line of figures looking like what it was, a danger signal. I recall people’s eyes standing on stalks at the “telephone number” string of digits showing what we collectively owed. Public debt back then had reached $3 trillion.
Today, it’s $28 trillion, seven times as much. Yet although our fiscal condition is measurably much worse than it was a generation ago, debt barely registers on most politicians’ radars. They spend like proverbially intoxicated mariners. The Democratic Party does everything it can to increase borrowing and spending, working under the spell of a delusional but fashionable idea called Modern Monetary Theory, which posits that we can spend as much as we want without adverse
Netflix s The Sandman cast announced; Game of Thrones alum Gwendoline Christie, Charles Dance among stars Apart from the Netflix show, The Sandman audio drama series has also been greenlit for second and third seasons at Audible. FP Staff January 29, 2021 11:12:53 IST
Neil Gaiman has finally revealed the primary cast for Netflix s upcoming adaptation of
The Sandman. Produced by Warner Bros. Television and executive produced by Gaiman, the show, based on the graphic novel series published by DC, stars Tom Sturridge as Dream (aka Morpheus), ruler of the ethereal realm known as The Dreaming.
Game of Thrones alumni Gwendoline Christie and Charles Dance are also part of the series. While Christie plays Lucifer Morningstar, Dance will portray occultist Roderick Burgess.
THE SANDMAN Audible Adaptation Officially Renewed For Two More Seasons
The main cast of Netflix s upcoming take on Neil Gaiman s
The Sandman was announced yesterday, and it s now been confirmed that the acclaimed Audible adaptation will return for Act II and Act III.
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1/29/2021
It s been a good week for fans of Neil Gaiman s seminal DC Vertigo comic series,
The Sandman.
Preludes & Nocturnes, The Dollâs House and
Dream Country - will return to continue the story with
The Sandman: Act II and
The Sandman: Act III.
The first installment was released in July of last year, and was reportedly the Amazon-owned companyâs best-selling original to date.
Audible and DC Announce Second and Third Installments of Record-Breaking Audio Drama THE SANDMAN By Josh Millican
Audible Inc., the leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, today announced that the much-anticipated second and third installments of
The
The Sandman: Act II and
The Sandman: Act III, have been greenlit.
The announcement follows
The Sandman’s 2020 hugely successful debut, which broke records for the most pre-orders of any Audible Original title and earned the distinction of being the best-selling Audible Original in the company’s history.
The Sandman also occupied the #1 spot on
The New York Times Best Seller Audio Fiction list in July 2020 and August 2020. Based on