“Pretending that deposits are safe when they are invested in long-term risky assets is an illusion,” he writes. Author Mervyn King, the recent governor of the Bank of England, suggests this immensely seductive process led to “the creation of extraordinary financial powers that defy reality and common sense.” In his revelatory 2016 book The End of Alchemy, King calls for change, noting that modern blending of money and banking not only caused last decade’s global recession but is also largely to blame for the painfully slow recovery. Alchemy, the medieval practice of attempting to convert base metals into gold in pursuit of a universal elixir, found new purpose during the Industrial Revolution as banks transformed secure short-term deposits into long-term risky investments.
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1 would begin were Simonson left off, for once without a single fill-in issue between long runs, with issue #383. Thor by Tom DeFalco & Ron Frenz Omnibus Vol. Ultimately, how much 90s-ness you can stomach may be the deciding factor on your enjoyment of this run. This run does read like a much more modern comic in some ways, which would probably make it easier for the average reader not accustomed to how comics used to be, but it starts getting a tad too “Xtreme” and “radical” for my liking as we get deeper into the nineties (not nearly as much as it will get once DeFalco and Frenz leave, but we’ll get to that.) Still, though this may not be my favorite era of Thor, it’s a solid era of Thor, and one that long-time comic readers list among the likes of Lee and Kirby, Simonson, and Jason Aaron. Thankfully, things get much easier to work out from here: after Simonson, whose work on Thor received a dedicated omnibus back in 2011, writer Tom DeFalco and artist Ron Frenz collaborated on the title and a few spin-offs for nearly a decade, taking Thor well into the nineties. Our attempt to decide how Marvel should ideally collect all of Thor comics in omnibus format continues, with all the Silver Age and Bronze Age material already covered in the first part. Studies in World Literature in English: Literatures of Decolonization The format of the class includes lectures as well as discussion, all based on questions and comments from students. What is the rule, and what is the exception in Shakespeare's works? Who has the last word in a tragedy and why? What about comedies ending with a character addressing the audience? What are the rules of theater, and what are the rules of literature? Who creates them and for what purpose? When do they get transgressed, and why? A tentative list of the readings includes Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, and Cymbeline, as well as the sonnets. One of the main topics we'd like to focus on is the oscillation between regular and irregular. We'll be reading a limited number of plays and some of the poetry. This class focuses on a selection of works from Shakespeare’s entire career. |