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Silver Lining

Calvin Trillin

January 12, 2021

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 20, 2020.(Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

The market is hitting record highs, even as the virus surges and millions go hungry. —The Washington Post

Though others have suffered, the Wall Street guys got The bull-market profits to which they aspire. Will even more sickness be grim news for all? No, not if it means that the market goes higher.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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