07-12-2016, 04:33 PM
An attempt to revive an old T4T forum in the event that much of the American economy goes belly-up again.
Noteworthy failures can include:
1. Deaths of once-prominent businesses, like former Fortune 500 companies. Foreign firms may be included.
Deaths include bankruptcies, liquidation, and forced mergers.
2. Governments in receivership or bankruptcy. That includes state, municipal, and county governments.
3. High-profile organizations such as unions, colleges and universities, symphony orchestras, opera companies, high-profile churches, and foundations.
4. High-end marketers irrespective of size -- let us say Cartier or Gucci if such were so.
Noteworthy failures can include:
1. Deaths of once-prominent businesses, like former Fortune 500 companies. Foreign firms may be included.
Deaths include bankruptcies, liquidation, and forced mergers.
2. Governments in receivership or bankruptcy. That includes state, municipal, and county governments.
3. High-profile organizations such as unions, colleges and universities, symphony orchestras, opera companies, high-profile churches, and foundations.
4. High-end marketers irrespective of size -- let us say Cartier or Gucci if such were so.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.