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Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

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If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

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Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

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The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

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I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

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Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.

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