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2022
Thank You for Your Service – A Veteran’s Day Memory
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Orwellian ‘Inflation Reduction Act’
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Corporate Social Responsibility and It’s Newest Version – ESG
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Congress is Going After the Alleged Price Gougers – Again
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Inflation: Who or What is the Culprit?
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2021
Biden Administration’s Ongoing, Ill-Timed Fight Against Fossil Fuels
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Critiquing Current Tax Proposals
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Biden Resumes Obama’s Efforts Against Domestic Oil Production
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Biden Team Predicts Long Term Slow Economic Growth
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Worst Kept Economic Secret: Inflation in Back
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Raise the Tax Rate? Economic Obtuseness in High Places
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Washington’s Bi-Partisan Fiscal Folly
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The Problematical COVID-19 Relief Legislation
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2020
Giving Thanks to Society’s Economic Benefactors
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The Paradox of Prosperity
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The Problem With Inheritance Taxes
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Clarifying the Record: Trump Economy vs. Carter Economy
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2019
Is the Federal Reserve Apolitical?
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Art of the Budget Deal
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Old Wisdom Applied to Current Spending Proposals
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Green New Deal Plus Modern Monetary Theory Equals Socialism
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The Folly of Minimum Wage Laws
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2018
Spending More on Debt than Defense
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One Judge’s Role in Sabotaging the Keystone KL Pipeline Project
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The Politics of Ethanol
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World More Prosperous, Peaceful Than Ever
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1968: A Year of Lost Innocence
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Budget Caps Bite the Dust
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President Trump’s First Year Economic Record
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2017
Thanksgiving Day Thoughts
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Records Levels of Debt: Who Cares?
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The Summer of Love 50 Years Later
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A Universal Basic Income?
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Medicine That Hurts
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Obama’s Historically Weak Economic Performance
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Obama’s Parting Economic Shots
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2016
What is Gold Saying About Trump?
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Sports Legends Lost
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Hillary Clinton’s Estate Tax Proposal
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Fed Seeks to Postpone Default
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Obama’s Potty Overreach
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2015
Good Grief Charlie Brown!
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Feeling Good About America
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Remembering Yogi Berra
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The ‘Not Enough Jobs’ Scenario
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Is Obama to Blame for Weak Economic Growth?
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Negative Interest Rates?
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Remembering M. Stanton Evans
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The FCC vs. Internet Freedom
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Remembering James B. Edwards
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Assessing Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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2014
Saudi Arabia Vs. Keystone Pipeline
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A Free Market Economist’s Take on ‘The Roosevelts’
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NLRB’s Contribution to Obama’s Anti-Business Crusade
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Hats off to Fathers Who Are Men
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The Ultimate Sacrafice
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Teacher Appreciation Week
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The Magesty of the Risen Savior
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The Politics of St. Paul
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God & Jesus, Politics & Government
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100 Years of the Federal Reserve
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2013
Powerful Christmas Lesson
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A Miracle or Coincidence?
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Unseen Scars
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Burglarizing JP Morgan Chase & Slapping Down Prudential
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Average is Overrated
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Happy Birthday James Monroe
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Republicans Need to Grow Up on Taxes
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Medicare: Did You Really Pay for That?
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Pentagon Budget as Political Football
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The Spendaholics’ Offensive
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Erasing Reagan: The Illiberal War on Truth
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Economic Outlook for 2013
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A Nostaligic Look at New Year’s in the 1950s
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2012
Christmas Thoughts 2012
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Compromise or Gridlock?
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Long Live the Twinkie !
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Blasted Twinkie Killers
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An Open Letter to Mitt Romney
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Politically Incorrect Billionaire
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Obama’s Popularity with Younger Voters
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Euro is a Frankenstein Currency
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Me and Mitt: A Personal Glimpse
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Reflections on the French Election
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Yo Yo Economics
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Election Year Politics of Energy
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People Say the Darndest Things
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A Whiff of Privatization
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The Tax Rate Scandal
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Sports, Concussions & Contemporary American Culture
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2011
The Five Best Christmas Movies
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Barry and the Babe
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When Clarence Thomas Came for a Visit
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Green Boondoggles
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Veterans: What Is Seen and Not Seen
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Looking Ahead to 2012, 2013, 2014
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We’ve Been ZIRPed
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The Boys of October
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Greece on the Brink
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Greece, Germany and the Fate of the Euro
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Gold’s Meteoric Rise
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Deal or No Big Deal?
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USA on the Brink
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Solutions for the ‘Tax Gap’
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The Limits to Bernanke’s Power
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Jefferson Vs. Hamilton: The Continuing Contest
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My Congressman’s Tough Job
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Thanks, Pop!
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Swindling America’s Youth
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High Stakes Showdown Over Medicare
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The Global Energy Superpower
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Inflation, Food, Fuel & the Fed
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Millionaires in America
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Christian Conservatives and Randians
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How Radical is the Ryan Plan?
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Imperfect Justice in Snyder v. Phelps
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Budget Tightening in PA and Across the Nation
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Who Objects to Free Speech?
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Debt Ceiling Dance
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Wisconsin Unions vs. Governor Walker
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Honoring Reagan’s Memory in the Most Honorable Way
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Economics of the State of the Union
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The New-Old Barack Obama
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Hu’s in Town: Time to Talk Money
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On Reading Aloud in Congress
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2010
The Tea Party’s Uphill Challenge
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Honroring Bill of Rights Day
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A Thanksgiving Lesson
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Dead Man Walking
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Thank You for Your Service
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Tough Times Ahead
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Dangerous Election Year Demagoguery on Trade
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Breakdown
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Understanding Austerity
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Global Warming: The Big Picture
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Rethinking The Corporate Income Tax
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Geithner Vs. Bush Tax Cuts
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Lessons from History: How Obamanomics May Play Out
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Three Neglected Ecoomic Lessons from American History
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Libertarianism vs. American Sovereignty
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Economic Information Worth Knowing
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Exchange Rate Mythology
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Columbia Presidential Election: Not ‘Too Close to Call’
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Reservations About a Balanced Budget Amendment
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America Needs Union Competition
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Reflections on the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
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Tragedy in Amish Country
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The Great Greek Bail-Out
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Good Cop, Bad Cop
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Financial Intrigue in Greece: Should We Care?
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Financial Reform: The Problem of Leverage
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The VAT-Man Cometh?
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The Social Justice Fallacy
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The Governing Elite vs. The Rest of Us
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Econoclasts: A Book Review
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A Moment of Illumination
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Obama’s Anti-Jobs Policy
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2009
Combating Recessions: The search for the right macroeconomic policy
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Jefferson’s Warnings About Money and Banks
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Adam Smith’s Timely and Timeless Classic
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Government Intervention and High Prices
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The Coming of Caesar
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Psyching Out the Stock Market
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Sex, Life and Death
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Cap and Trade Update
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Gold, Geopolitics, and the Carry Trade
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Honduras and the United States
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The G-20 Meeting is Over (Thanks Goodness!)
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Truth and Politics
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Monetary Madness
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A Trillion Here, A Trillion There
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The Next Great Depression, Updated
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Remembering July 20, 1969
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The Nuts and Bolts of Cap and Trade
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Upheaval in Honduras: A Defining Moment for the Obama Presidency
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No Laughing Matter
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Detroit: A Glimpse into America’s Future
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Team Obama’s Auto Coup
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Opening Pandora’s Box: Classifying CO2 as a ‘Pollutant’
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The U.S. Constitution: Living, Breathing Document or Dead Letter?
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A Closer Look at the IPCC
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Economic Strangulation
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Obama’s Two Achilles’ Heels
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Checkmate?
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FDR: Then and Today
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Two Americas?
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In Praise of Capitalist Exploitation
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More Bailouts, More Fed
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Anger at AIG
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The Ghost of John Maynard Keynes
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Into the Fiscal Abyss
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Three Books for the Current Crisis
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Tough Times for Wise Virgins
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Team Obama: Ready to Rock ‘n Roll
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Love That Economic Pain
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Assessing the Presidency of George W. Bush
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‘Only Government Can . . . . ?’: Parsing Obama’s speech on the economy
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2008
Lessons from the Oil Market
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The Problem with Monotheism
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Dancing with Fred or Frankenstein: Free Markets, Socialism, and the Bailout
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The Big Three: Assigning Blame & An Alternative to a Bail-out
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Thanksgiving Thoughts 2008: The challenge of affluence
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The End Game
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The Threat Within
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Obama, FDR, the Constitution, and Rights
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Hatred and Politics
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The Dominant Campaign Question
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Thoughts on the Bailout
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Blaming the Free Market
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Economic Nonsense
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Another One Bites the Dust
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