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The Rent Is Too Damn High
On Greg Mankiw and the enormous cost of letting finance rule.
Enrique Diaz-Alvarez works in finance in New York City.
On Greg Mankiw and the enormous cost of letting finance rule.
It’s not so much that Obama “sold us out” to a powerful constituency as that he picked the wrong powerful constituency. A quick look at the financial details reveals that health insurance nationalization was always the real “path of least resistance.”