Voice: Richard Vague
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Book Excerpt: What’s Causing Mass Inequality?
In The Paradox of Debt, out next week, Philadelphia author and public intellectual Richard Vague makes the connection conventional economists avoid: It’s the debt, stupid!
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What Really Happened to Silicon Valley Bank …
… and why it matters. Here, the definitive account from the city's premier renaissance man and Pennsylvania's former Secretary of Banking and Securities
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A Student Debt Forgiveness Proposal That’s Fair
Philly’s preeminent big picture thinker and apostle for growth is out with a new book that addresses how widespread debt forgiveness can save America—if it's done fairly.
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Dear Potholes
An affectionate open letter to the scourge of Philadelphia’s streets
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Wrestling with Biddle’s Ghost
The failure of Philly’s most powerful banker in the 1800s contains modern-day—and personal—lessons
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Why Not Us?
Pennsylvania leads the world in cancer research. So why is Texas turbo-charging its economy by investing so much more in the fight?
By Richard Vague