MONEY MATTERS Slavery Was Most Everywhere Hating America is in fashion these days. As if you did not know. Fuel for the hatred comes in the form of sins. Sins the early Americans committed. They belittled women. They savaged the natives. And they owned slaves. As early as 1619. That was when an English shipowner unloaded African slaves into Virginia. Aboard his vessel, flying a Dutch flag. The haters claim this proves that racism is in this country’s DNA. It…
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Money Talk Common Sense Ain’t So Common ’Tis early days, but what have we learned from the virus crisis? One thing is that we don’t know what we don’t know. And we are often not certain about what we think we do know. For instance, we don’t know whether we should tell people to stay home, inside. Or should we encourage them to get out in the fresh air. Some experts say stay inside. Others throw facts at us that…