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Finally, since the subject is Republicans, logic, jurisprudence, and advanced metaphysical speculation, you're probably wondering where Dan Quayle comes down.
This is, of course, pessimistic speculation.
He listed six other steps for averting disaster: 1) equipping international institutions with the research facilities to stop lying and to tell the truth about the real state of the world economy; 2) taking the worst-affected countries into international trusteeship before financing them; 3) multiplying the fire breaks by sealing off the world's most volatile foreign-exchange markets; 4) taxing international speculation to increase the financial resources of international organizations; 5) taking counter-panic measures by, for example, getting governments around the world to make public international investments to show the global community's confidence in its own long-term future; 6) encouraging in the markets a taste for being different, for "finding it fashionable to be unfashionable," for going against the grain.
As for the lack of scientific speculation about forms of alien life, why is it the result of a "taboo"?
Former aides and acolytes like Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Theodore Sorensen have lumped Hersh with Oliver Stone, taking the line that the book is paranoid speculation.