AN EXQUISITE private collection of jewellery dazzled salegoers at Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s June antiques auction with items hotly contested by local, national and international buyers. A packed saleroom was captivated by the high calibre offering, which had been consigned following a house call by gemmologist and valuer Richard Slater. “It was a wonderful selection of jewellery. The owner had great taste,” said Richard. An early mid 20th Century platinum and diamond riviere necklace comprising 57 graduated old-cut and transition-cut stones of approximately 42 carats in total was the standout lot of the day. There was fierce competition to possess the necklace and no fewer than five phone lines waded into the battle.
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By Mike Davis and Jon Wiener
Davis’s modesty won out over the truth. Four years earlier, he had, in fact, done just that. Writing in the
Los Angeles Times, he laid out the fundamental problems of the housing bubble then underway. Noting its particular precarity in Southern California, he also went on to discuss how it might affect the country and the world: The “national economy may be equally vulnerable to property deflation, with a mild jolt sufficient to end the current American boom, and perhaps throw all the dollar-pegged economies into recession.” Davis wasn’t the only one who saw that crash coming, of course. But in the Moyers interview, he downplayed his clairvoyance with a joke: “People of the left like myself are famous,” he said, for “predicting 11 of the last three depressions.”
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Six Questions with Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, author of “Epidemic Empire”
January 28, 2021By PublicityTeam
Terrorism has often been described as a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. In her new book, Epidemic Empire,
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
tracks this persistent trope of terrorism as a “social contagion,” from its roots in anti-rebellion colonial rhetoric through to the global war on terror. Raza Kolb’s demonstrates that the metaphor surfaces again and again at moments of crisis including the current COVID-19 crisis. We asked the author a few questions about her book.