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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
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Mark Hendrickson
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Charles Dickens’s famous line in “A Tale of Two Cities” about the present being both the best and worst of times is apropos today. Perhaps, in this imperfect world of tares and wheat, that’s always the case to some degree. Is the glass half empty or half full?

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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