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Roubini and the Bail-in this weekend

…of the banks runs and financial crises that we are now seeing in the cases of Bear Stearns, Lehman and Fannie and Freddie. Since government bailouts put at risk public

Opus : Finale’ A Discussion On Taxation

…wealth should be discouraged.81 This view found its expression in the republican creed of civic humanism, which emphasized public virtue as a balance to private rights. A virtuous republic, the…

Is a College Education Getting More Expensive?

Steve Teles provides a link to this study on the real price of a higher education in the U.S. The study distinguishes between the type of institution. For a public

…you from being fooled, I visited dictionary.com: pro·gram n 1: a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need; “he proposed an elaborate program of public works”;…

Modern money and public purpose

From Matt McOsker : This might be a good debate to advertise on AB: http://www.modernmoneyandpublicpurpose.com/mmt-vs-austrian-school.html Modern Monetary Theory vs. the Austrian school macroeconomic debates among the heterodoxy Warren Mosler, Author,…