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It’s a Keynesian myth,  says Gary North .  

“And while one is loath to defend them, these faceless, fast-talking people who call us during dinner, perhaps it’s time someone did. Telemarketing isn’t a crime. It’s a profitable business responsible for legitimate employment. Yet it’s just been regulated out of existence, and the country is applauding,” writes Farhad Manjoo in Salon .

Writes Eduardo Kamisato:   There are many problems with the US economy right now: an increasingly huge fiscal deficit, huge trade deficit, and an almost negative balance of capital investments that can lead to a depression next year. These, and the generally unstable political environment in Washington, affect not only Americans but the rest

“The pension time bomb is ticking — and could ultimately explode in a savings-and-loan-like crisis. An aging workforce and the collapse of the stock market have combined to create massive underfunding of traditional corporate pensions. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the government agency that insures these pensions, estimates the

According to  Niall Ferguson and Laurence Kotlikoff , global rule by the US is threatened by balloning expenditures on Social Security and Medicare. (Courtesy of Eduardo Kamisato.)

Albert Jay Nock v. George W. Bush (LRC Blog)  

Could it cost 2 million jobs?

Says the BIS.  

A working paper by George Selgin.  

It is now illegal in New York City to have ashtrays in public view.