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Meanwhile, fifty years ago [update]

Slate’s Ray Fisman (“They Made a Killing,” 29 Oct ’08) reports that forensic economists have discovered that “the Cabots, Dulleses, or other insiders were using their privileged information to profit personally from [the] future coup” in Guatemala by gaming the stock market. What’ll they discover next? Zero?
Fortunately, the article is a pedestrian prologue to the [...]