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Our Greatest Enemy: Optimism

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In his first inaugural address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, “So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is … fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” FDR was wrong. Far worse than nameless, unreasoning, unjustified […]

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