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Editor's Note: 'Every man for himself' or 'the greater good?'

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
– John F. Kennedy


Well, we have avoided the fiscal cliff – for now. But the reckoning will have to come.

Maybe I’m wrong – I’m neither a financial expert nor a political analyst – but sooner or later,  we will have to address the root issues of this turmoil. I don’t see how we can avoid it. We keep treating the symptoms while the illness runs unchecked.

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