By Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management and a co-founder of No Labels "Americans tend to think of politics in terms of a spectrum, with voters spread from left to right. Historically the distribution resembled a bell curve, with the vast majority of Americans somewhere in the center. However, more recently we’re told voters are skewing farther left and farther right, leaving the middle empty and the nation hopelessly divided. I’m not sure the left/right schism captures the key issue in American politics..." | |