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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year: Money or Service? Goldman Sachs Exposed
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year. A Blog Companion to the Book, by Scott Waalkes. Wednesday, March 14, 2012. After almost twelve years at the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith resigned yesterday. People quit jobs every day, but this executive director at one of the biggest global financing firms published his complaints against his former employer on today's op-ed page. Of the New York Times. Consider this exchange from Margin Call. Underlining is mine),.
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year: Alone in a Dark Room With a Pile of Money: What Would You Do?
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year. A Blog Companion to the Book, by Scott Waalkes. Saturday, November 19, 2011. Alone in a Dark Room With a Pile of Money: What Would You Do? Review of Michael Lewis, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011). Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball. And The Blind Side. First came to prominence with Liar's Poker. Twenty years later, his knowledge of the global bond market- including the introduction of mort...
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year: Update on Our Friend
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year. A Blog Companion to the Book, by Scott Waalkes. Monday, May 2, 2011. Update on Our Friend. As Americans were getting excited last night over the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, I received an email from Shubbar's wife saying that her father and two brothers were arrested yesterday in Bahrain. Her father is Sheikh Mohammed al Mahfoodh, the religious leader of the Islamic Action Society, or Amal. Dear Mr President,. Finally...
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year: A Visit With Friends
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year. A Blog Companion to the Book, by Scott Waalkes. Monday, October 29, 2012. A Visit With Friends. Readers of this blog may recall how, during the so-called Arab Spring, our Bahraini friend, Shubbar, was first arrested and arbitrarily detained. Only to be released after fifty days. By which time the government of Bahrain had arrested his father-in-law and two brothers-in-law. Hajar's father's case is being appealed, and there is a ...
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year: Mashup: Twitter, Celebrities, and the Middle East
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year. A Blog Companion to the Book, by Scott Waalkes. Monday, December 3, 2012. Mashup: Twitter, Celebrities, and the Middle East. First it was Paris Hilton and now it's Kim Kardashian. When reality TV celebrities with Twitter accounts are unleashed on Middle Eastern shoppers, you can expect controversy. But this is not a simple story of hatred of the West. Rather, globalization is the issue. And now Ms. Kardashian has provoked a ...
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year: January 2013
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year. A Blog Companion to the Book, by Scott Waalkes. Friday, January 4, 2013. Aha" Moments on the Global Financial Crisis. Review of The Unfair Trade: How Our Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class. New York: Crown Business, 2012), by Michael J. Casey (403 pages). Although The Unfair Trade. Granted, Casey’s account is less entertaining than Michael Lewis’ The Big Short. Amazon sales rank #. Amazon sales rank #3,732. At tim...
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year: Tell the US and Bahrain Governments: Release Our Friend
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year. A Blog Companion to the Book, by Scott Waalkes. Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Tell the US and Bahrain Governments: Release Our Friend. But at 11:30 pm on Sunday, April 3, masked security forces burst into his house. His wife, who also studied at Bowling Green, described the scene to me in an email:. His wife writes,. Please help me spread the word to the media and to the US and Bahraini governments:. This kind of arbitrary arrest is...
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year: Jobless Economic Growth?
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year. A Blog Companion to the Book, by Scott Waalkes. Tuesday, August 28, 2012. This blog took an unofficial summer sabbatical, but I hope to start posting again as the school year gets rolling. Why does a company like Apple boom at the same time that few jobs are being created? Ran a prominent story on Amazon's cloud computing services. With two rather telling quotes in it. I have 10 engineers, but without A.W.S. Amazon Web Services]...
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year: October 2012
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year. A Blog Companion to the Book, by Scott Waalkes. Monday, October 29, 2012. A Visit With Friends. Readers of this blog may recall how, during the so-called Arab Spring, our Bahraini friend, Shubbar, was first arrested and arbitrarily detained. Only to be released after fifty days. By which time the government of Bahrain had arrested his father-in-law and two brothers-in-law. Hajar's father's case is being appealed, and there is a ...
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year: Upward Mobility in America? Maybe Not.
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year. A Blog Companion to the Book, by Scott Waalkes. Wednesday, September 12, 2012. Upward Mobility in America? Inspired by old Horatio Alger tales, Americans tell themselves that anyone can work hard and succeed here. But is that true? Maybe not. A r ecent report on education from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Consider the following striking chart from the OECD education report. Now let's look at the Uni...
