You may want to turn the page if you are one of those people who thinks government has no place in anyone’s life until your financial stability has been threatened by market schemes that once allowed you to make a killing but now put you in mortal fear of an economic bloodbath.

This is the kind of column for which liberals take a lambasting as bleeding hearts and economic simpletons. For me, though, it goes to a question of justice.

Some of my contemporaries in this business are retiring or feeling pressured to retire by employers who are cutting jobs when they cannot w...

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