5 The Real Game of Missing Money Missing Money: A Personal History: 1989-2019 “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was…. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” ~ Milan Kundera “It’s deja vu all over again.” ~Yogi Berra C. Austin Fitts, Assis- tant Housing Secretary, conferring with assis- tants during a break in her testimony before a Senate subcommittee, 1989. (The New York Times/Andrea Mohin)