Yesterday, an epochal day in American history, 146 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation proclamation, as Barack Obama was being sworn in as the first African-American president of the United States, a persistent schizophrenia of the American soul was laid bare.
As the president-elect placed his hand on the Lincoln inaugural bible, and hundreds of millions of Americans and many more around the world were struck with hope and wonder, nameless fund managers and anonymous shareholders were calling their brokers...
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