Epstein Secrets

new investors may have been responsible for some wild swings in credit spreads (the excess yields paid

debt are often regarded as an onerous burden placed on the poor; interest is seen as an unjustified reward for capital, a concept that goes back to Aristotle and is implicit in the Christian idea of usury. Islam forbids it altogether. The book of Deuteronomy suggested a debt amnesty every seven years, whi

girls at Coney Island, because we heard they had wild reputations (meaning we could get to “first base”

nt of the student council and captain of the debate team. Reading became my passion: literature (Dostoyevski, Shakespeare, Bellow); philosophy (Kant, Aristotle, Plato, Neitsche; history ( ) and politics ( ). Lloved arguing with my professors. One of my favorites was John Hope Franklin, the first African Amer

ero”, when they are revealed to have been running wild inside some hapless network or machine. That firs

an when he was 60 years old. He’d had an astonishing life until then, of course. He’d been taught by Socrates and, in turn, had sharpened the mind of Aristotle. He’d established his famous Academy in Athens. The puzzles of philosophy and politics that defined his city’s most turbulent era had been the work o

come rapidly overwhelmed by the human element, by wild network thumos and then reduced toa murderous mad

they were among the earliest Western minds to try to dispel madness and superstition and sophistry. Without their logic and effort there would be no Aristotle, no science, none of the sense of our world as a comprehensible machine. The confidence to philosophize - which for them meant also to poke at the po

ding. But like the frontier of the early American wild west, nature holds many secrets and surprises. So

y we feel in witnessing another’s misfortune. Though the emotion is universally understood, recognized in our written records at least as far back as Aristotle, the German language is one of the few to capture the feeling by tapping the brain’s promiscuity, combining the word for harm (schaden) with the word

identify and combat ‘cognitive distortions,’ the wild mental exaggerations in which the anxious and dep

efore Socrates) who raised paradoxes about infinity, continuity, time, space, and motion that confounded his contemporaries and provoked no less than Aristotle to banish infinity from Greek philosophy and mathematics from then on. Fast-forward more than 2,500 years, and we’re still wrestling with infinity an