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…could endanger housing values down the road. Investor purchases turned up in 2002 and have accelerated ever since, painting a picture of increasing frenzy. In 2001, about one out of…

The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…