Epstein Secrets

sidents with vision, restraint, and a knack for behind-the-scenes deftness. This struck me again last week when President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie toured the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy. They were hailed as leaders for their very public reaction to a crisis when in fact, real leader

fact, real leadership would have involved avoiding the crisis in the first place -- or reducing its consequences, as we might have done had Obama, Christie, and other officials taken warnings about the consequences of climate change, severe weather, and deteriorating infrastructure more seriously. Inde

ble back in 2008 include private space travel, radar that can see through walls, and mosquito lasers. Economic Malaise At this time four years ago, Lehman Brothers had only recently collapsed, Japan still had a larger economy than China, and European leaders had yet EFTA00700220 to hold their first debt cris

in a bid to beat President Obama but also to ensure strengthened support for Israel in domestic U.S. politics. And, more recently, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) apologized to Adelson after referring to the West Bank as "occupied territories" in a speech at the spring leadership meeting of the Republican

litics. And, more recently, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) apologized to Adelson after referring to the

, and how vulnerable debt- burdened families were to a plunge in housing prices — the clean little secret of recent years is that, since the fall of Lehman Brothers, basic textbook macroeconomics has performed very well. But policy makers and politicians have ignored both the textbooks and the lessons of histo

arst in Citizen Kane: a rich man with non-existent morals but exquisite taste. Like Dick Fuld, Lehman Brothers' last CEO: earlier this month, it took Christie's days to sell off the bank's art collection. Here there is no so such owner: this collection has been curated by two artists, Victoria Golembiovskaya

n houses now tie their activities to it more than ever. Off-site auctions saw Phillips de Pury selling David Hockney's Autumn Pool for $2 million and Christie's flogging Andreas Gursky's photograph of the New York Stock Exchange for $700,000, almost three times its estimate. Harry Blain and Graham Southern,

Richter (valued at up to f1m) and, hollow laugh, Andreas Gursky's photomontage of the New York Stock Exchange, last seen hanging in the boardroom at Lehman Brothers (estimate: £100,000 - {150,000). Sotheby's has Jerry Hall's extraordinary collection up for sale - including work by Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and