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Niall Ferguson: Solution to Debt Crisis Isn’t More Debt
Controversial new column out from historian Niall Ferguson in The Australian. His point is that economists should give up their dusty copies of Keynes, and recognize that the discipline is a disaster. At the same time bank nationalization/restructuring must happen, as must mass mortgage ...
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