om perfect or complete. But we are convinced that citizens — and investors — should understand the business of their government. Thomas Jefferson and Alexis de Tocqueville knew that — armed with the right information — the enlightened citizenry of America would make the right decisions. It is our humble hope that a tran

e classes who are frustrated by the lack of political and economic opportunity—a HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023472 --- PAGE BREAK --- 16 phenomenon noted by Alexis de Tocqueville in his masterful analysis of the origins of the French Revolution and raised again in the early 1960s by James Davies’s well known “J-curve” theory o