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May 1982 Issue
May 1982 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Kissinger and Nixon in the White House
    Seymour M. Hersh
  • Washington: Endless Deficits
    James Fallows
  • The Confident Speculators
    John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Poet in Training
    Katha Pollitt
  • The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
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The Confident Speculators

By John Kenneth Galbraith
May 1982 Issue
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