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Confessions of a MoneyMan

“The U.S. has gotten the redistribution part down, but in our case we redistribute to each according to his voting clout.”

I AM A CAPITALIST BECAUSE I remember socialism.

I was converted to capitalism by a few years at the University of Chicago and a few decades working internationally and seeing socialism up close and personal. Until recently, I was confident that we need not worry about trying that experiment again because socialism

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