About per capita income
and its geographical distribution in the Roman Empire.
About
militarising foreign aid (pdf).
Saudi supertanker
has been seized by Somali pirates, the
largest ship ever hijacked. Paper on
the economics of piracy (pdf).
Singapore
will allow payments to providers of human kidneys and eggs.
Rupert Murdoch
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FDR clearly did not cause a recession to turn into the Great Depression (in the sense of the scale and length of the contraction), that happened under Hoover. The question whether FDR's policies on balance helped or hindered recovery (and which did what) is more open.
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As for CRA/Fannie/Freddie, see here. F&F didn't make subprime loans, and their share of the "near-prime" market was small and declining well before the crisis hit.
This is all one big exercise on your part in evading the simple conclusion that unregulated markets can, and do, fuck up big time occasionally.
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