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Andrew Leonard writes good, advanced, nuanced stuff every day, about economics, in his blog "How the World Works." This article is a little more general, a little more sensational than usual, but it deserves better responses than some of this knee-jerk rant.
This is a forum for coming up with new approaches. Please think and advance the discussion. Do not just replay all the conventional wisdom that has led us to this economic brink.