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Reason
by David Harsanyi

03/11/09

There are few things more satisfying than unloading your righteous rage on one of those insatiably greedy Wall Street bankers. We have Gordon Gekko to blame. Barack Obama has George W. Bush. So while the president is busy radically centralizing the nation’s economy, he, in a superbly eloquent and inspirational pitch, always reminds us that nothing is his fault. If Washington had a buck to spare, it still wouldn’t stop at the top. But let’s, for the sake of argument, concede that presidents trigger recessions. Well, then, we also must concede that nearly every initiative enacted in the first 50 days by the Obama administration has exacerbated what Bush started...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/132178.html



Hazardous conditions

Rational Review
by Michelle L

03/11/09

‘The money will always be there? We can’t run out of money?’ Surely this is mere hyperbole, right? I mean, even the government can’t sincerely believe that money is some sort of infinite resource, right? Perhaps not...

http://www.rationalreview.com/content/60165


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