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All Bailouts Are Counterparty Bailouts
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Economist's View —
A Tsunami of Excuses - NYTimes.com
Is Obamanomics Conservative or Revolutionary? - Robert Reich
Trickle-up bailouts - Interfluidity
Health Care Costs for Employers - pgl
World hunger, the crisis inside the economic crisis - Los Angeles Times
Amartya Sen on Moralism, Maoism, and Capitalism - Easterly
Not so easing (wonkish) - Paul Krugman
The sorry state of (macro)economics - Dani Rodrik
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