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1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · By John Figliozzi

   JOHN FIGLIOZZI: We Should Fear Incompetence, Not What We’re Told To Fear (opens the original)

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   There was plenty for Americans to fear when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed at his 1933 first term inauguration, “[L]et me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, The nation was less than three years removed from the October 1929 Wall Street crash that by July 1932 had erased 89% of the stock market’s value. Up to 15.5 million Americans were out of work, a 24.9% unemployment rate according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates. But R

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2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · By John Figliozzi

   JOHN FIGLIOZZI: We Should Fear Incompetence, Not What We’re Told To Fear (opens the original)

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   There was plenty for Americans to fear when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed at his 1933 first term inauguration, “[L]et me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, The nation was less than three years removed from the October 1929 Wall Street crash that by July 1932 had erased 89% of the stock market’s value. Up to 15.5 million Americans were out of work, a 24.9% unemployment rate according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates. But R

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3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · By John Figliozzi

   JOHN FIGLIOZZI: We Should Fear Incompetence, Not What We’re Told To Fear (opens the original)

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   There was plenty for Americans to fear when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed at his 1933 first term inauguration, “[L]et me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, The nation was less than three years removed from the October 1929 Wall Street crash that by July 1932 had erased 89% of the stock market’s value. Up to 15.5 million Americans were out of work, a 24.9% unemployment rate according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates. But R

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4. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · John Figliozzi

   JOHN FIGLIOZZI: Immigrants and immigration are part of America’s DNA (opens the original)

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   At 250, America is having something of an identity crisis. Through its first century as an independent nation – indeed, for the world throughout human history until around the 20th century – borders were porous. People came and went rather freely and were commonly regarded as sources of needed labor and additional tax revenue. Since colonial times, almost all immigrants had come from northern Europe. The California gold rush that began in 1848 and subsequent construction of the railroads bro

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5. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · John Figliozzi

   JOHN FIGLIOZZI: Immigrants and immigration are part of America’s DNA (opens the original)

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   At 250, America is having something of an identity crisis. Through its first century as an independent nation – indeed, for the world throughout human history until around the 20th century – borders were porous. People came and went rather freely and were commonly regarded as sources of needed labor and additional tax revenue. Since colonial times, almost all immigrants had come from northern Europe. The California gold rush that began in 1848 and subsequent construction of the railroads bro

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