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We live in interesting times. Contrary to the Chinese saying that uses this as a curse, today it is more like a blessing. The current financial and political upheavals mark the beginning of significant changes happening in our world. Things, as they say, will never be the same. Much as the TV pundits and political talking heads would like to assure us that everything will eventually return to

There is a line from an old Simon and Garfunkel song called The Boxer (supposedly about Bob Dylan) that has forever stuck in my head: “…a man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.” There are many versions of this popular truth in use, such as “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” or “The world is as we see it,” or perhaps even Descartes’ philosophical koan, “I think, therefore I