Money, money, money.  By midweek last week, the leading headlines of each of the major American newspapers had cash in common.  Gone, at least temporarily, the hand-wringing over other popular themes: autocracy, authoritarianism and fascism. Dizzy speculation regarding the fate of democracy or the fate of the union itself had to take a backseat. What exactly defines a “coup”? We’ll have to come back to that.  Would that it were for a good reason. Instead, the press was preoccupied with circumstances fiscal and economic; and they are fairly unwieldy and worrisome circumstances. The Trump administration’s freeze on the payment of…

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