Article originally posted on Advisor Perspectives Tomorrow’s election will bring gloomy punditry about America. Whatever the results, some will deem Donald Trump the winner. I just returned from visits to Oslo and the Venice Biennale International, a contemporary art exhibition. The art was great – but the repeated questions about America were not. In Norway […]
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