The Marvelous Maverick

Understanding Fractious Politics

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

“World Map” by Inez Storer, 40 X 70 in., is a richly textured, magical journey through history.   Published by Magnolia Editions, Oakland, California Understanding Fractious Politics...

THE MARVELOUS MAVERICK: Losing Santa

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto – Canada

          Losing Santa   The Christmas I stopped believing in Santa Claus, my grandfather laughed at me.  He said I looked...

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Human Evolution And Slow Recovery

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto – Canada

    Recovery from the 2008 financial crisis is slower than recovery from cataclysms like the world wars or other financial crises (other than the...

Unfairness, History And Magic

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

Photography By: Ron Henggeler San Francisco, California     In the mid 1990s, my husband took up the volunteer presidency of our summer community association....

Finance and Childbirth: Opaque and Unspeakable

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

Childbirth and finance are both essential, the first for making babies and the second to facilitate business. When I remember my own experience of safe,...

The Board Game Scrabble Explains Economic Reform

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

The financial crisis and the subsequent recession have been bad for business and employment. I prefer a world with growing trade, extensive development and rapidly...

Values, Childhood And The Economy

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

Suppressed values can be called into awareness and strengthened to construct a world that is resilient as well as prosperous. Children are geniuses at ramping...

The Financial Crisis An Explanation Based On Fantasy

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

One tiny root of today’s contractually-based, globalized economy dates from the first recorded agreement for a shipment of sheep hides from Britain to France in...

Intrusive Plenty: The Easter Bunny

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto – Canada

                    My mother noticed my son’s intense physicality and insisted that we both learn to ski....

Productivity?

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto – Canada

        Bend.  Dig.  Plant.  Hoe.  Harvest.  Peel.  Boil.  This is the way generations of my half-starved Irish ancestors earned their living.  Not...

Trying for a girl (or a boy)

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

Complex institutions are hard to fix, especially when they interconnect with other complex institutions to make a system. Canada’s effort to obtain population stability is...

Economy, New Values And Recovery

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

My Canadian business depends on a prosperous Canada and Canada is economically dependent on the larger, more productive, more creative economy of the United States.   While Canada seems to...

Handling Complexity In The Nineteenth Centuryd

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

Photography by Ron Henggeler   Clive Ponting’s book The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth illustrates how nineteenth century society handled complexity. The story...

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Cinderella, The Financial Crisis And Global Issues

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

The ancient fairytale character Cinderella is a modern heroine — she is hardworking, creative, pleasant,attractive and above all adaptive. The story of Cinderella is not...

The Card Game Bridge Explains Solutions To The Financial Crisis

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

The financial crisis has caused massive loss in wealth and employment.  Governments are trying to change regulation to prevent reoccurrence.  I hope these efforts are...

Using Childhood Memories To Understand The Economy

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

A nursery rhyme fascinated me as a child and has resurfaced in my thoughts, providing a guide to the economy. My memory of it is:...