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Revisiting the Great Depression: The Role of the Welfare State, Gold Standard in the Calamitous 1930s

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Romantic Heretic2/05/2012 4:02:42 am PST

As near as I can figure (not enough sleep or coffee at this time) the article boils down to, “Time to stick the elderly and disabled on an ice floe. They’re a drag on the economy.”

One of these days we’re going to realize that there’s nothing ‘natural’ about economics and we’re going to stop pretending it’s like gravity.