Cohen embraced the clipping as a kind of found literature-an indigenous comic genre. An Elder of Zion, a persona Cohen assumed in the journal in 1929, was also addicted to cutting tidbits out of the Jewish press, […]

Wanted: a Sir Humphrey for funds to hide behind … Key skills required: — Ability to move head vertically rather than horizontally when asked to promote anything desired by the fund management companies who pay your salary — Ability to confuse fact with fiction via misleading random statistics (a mathematics skill would be helpful here) — Ability to pull wool over the regulators’ eyes while maintaining a straight, poker-like face — Ability to come up with new reasons à la Humphrey from Yes Minister, as to why any progressive change that might help the consumer is currently unworkable.

Please just sit back and watch the show.

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