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A market crash may be very far from your mind right now — or very close, depending on how you view recent market performance. The three major benchmarks, the S&P 500, the Nasdaq Composite, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, have soared in the double-digits over the past few years in this bull market. And…

What does it take to dramatize the history of America on television? It must be more entertaining than slumber-inducing historical reenactments and demand more of its audience than being passive observers of a comfortable, sanitized civic mythology. There might have been a time when a network was happy to slap a recognizable actor with a…