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tblue37

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3. From a comment on his article:

Reply to cali (Original post)

Wed Feb 19, 2014, 12:49 AM

Feb 2014

". . . wealth has been hoovered into fewer and fewer pockets, and to get a rate of return these ridiculous agglomerations of money cause crisis after crisis.

Remember S&L? Black Monday? Once Reagan chopped top-end tax rates in half, suddenly we had financial crashes for the first time in half a century <emphasis added>.We've been lurching like drunken sailors ever since."

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