We’ve known of Haiti’s ‘lost billions’ before NYT’s report

I’ll be honest. Sometimes, I spend a little *too* much time on my hellsite of choice. Scrolling through Twitter is often the mental equivalent of a bag of crisps: I reach compulsively for it between meals of richer, more fulfilling work, snacking mindlessly on less-than-nutritious content, but never seriously entertaining the idea of completely giving it up. For while I’m occasionally queasy from overindulging, I do get something out of it. Often, that something is a morsel. The beginning of a story, the edges of a conversation leading me down unexpected paths. So it came to pass earlier this …

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