Government Shutdown, Spending Cuts, and other Fables

Tags: Big Government, Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy

10/03/2013 Peter G. Klein

Peter G. Klein explains that the “shutdown” is no shutdown and urges us to reject the economic version of Orwellian doublespeak. Klein is the Mises Institute’s Executive Director and Carl Menger Research Fellow.

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