I've been very quite again which is not good for a blogger and his audience. Perhaps I've been feeling too much a commoner when all the attention gets focused on the aristocracy of our country; the 400 richest people.
Today however, I came upon an essay in Wired that tackles Taleb's respect for nature as described in "The Black Swan" as a model for us to emulate or follow. When Catastrophe Strikes, Emulate the Octopus
The author does not capitalize Black Swan in his essay and I don't know what that's all about. But he does mention "...black swans...." So he's at least heard of Taleb's usage.
Robustness and redundancy of responses are the hallmarks of the octopus and "mother nature" which has outlasted many civilizations. We can learn from the octopus and we can become citizens of the USA not just residents. Bottom up processing (Occupy Movements) rather than top down (Koch brothers).
Second stimulus article to come later. It's from the Dallas Fed.
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