A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, America – and the world around it - was rapidly descending into Economic Hell. It was a protracted, confused, process called “the ‘70s.” A number of problems were causing recession, unemployment, and suffering, quantified by “the Misery Index” at twice the depth as today’s. America also was enmeshed in a Cold, yet latently nuclear, War. This held a very real risk of world annihilation.
Two men filled with moral courage, both “deuces,” gave us an era of peace and prosperity. They were deuces, low face value cards in the deck,...










The Way the World (Really) Works: The Wild Deuce Trumps