On good days, I like to think of myself as an opinion leader, someone whose experience, perspective, and sagacity warrant close attention.

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And, in the ancient corner, Alec Guinness, in a performance no less Buddha-like, in its opaque yet disarming sagacity, than it seemed thirty-two years ago.

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Still a viable property, for now, sadly, Wall Street has reduced present analytical content to that of bean counting, an aspersion on Street sagacity and player perspective.

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But now we face a unique opportunity we have the benefits of time lived (aka experience and sagacity), and its opposite, time left to live (in other words, the capacity to put those insights into action).

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What strikes me the most is that neither the Nobel Prize winner nor the Chairman of the Federal Reserve had the sagacity to completely repudiate the idea that inflation can in any way reduce the unemployment rate.

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Many of their decisions, such as giving every state two senators regardless of population, were the product not of Olympian sagacity but of grubby power-struggles and compromises exactly the sort of backroom dealmaking, in fact, in which today's Congress excels and which is now so much out of favour with the tea-partiers.

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