However, he is chasing one final detail--the identity and contact info for the photographer who took this photo in Zimbabwe, the 21st century's most audacious example of what Ben Bernanke and Da'Fed are subjecting us to in the United States.
Given the chaos and violence that overtook Zimbabwe, formerly that idyllic gem of Africa known as Rhodesia, this photographer may well be, well...dead.
It can happen anywhere, even in highly organized and cultured societies like Germany--the place that gave us Bach, Luther, Goethe, Schumann, Brahms--the list stretches on through all the arts and sciences, ended up with everyone wiped out and hauling wheelbarrows of notes to the market for a loaf of bread. Then someone came along and 'solved the problem'--little short guy with a moustache and a lot of pent-up hostility toward anyone who wasn't his kind of Aryan. You know, that guy...
Just because we're American, don't mean we're bulletproof. This really can happen here, and in his grumpier moments, OS suspects that TheClownCircus and WeimarBen are working toward that day. Just sayin'.
OS wishes Prof. Mankiw good fortune on his search.
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