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this bailout idea isn't in itself anything beyond a bailout idea. the more complex and comprehensive changes will be hammered out in the afterburn of this disaster.
but it's funny--the american press still can't say it, still cannot say that what's dead here is an ideology, a way of thinking about economic activity, a way of separating it from everything else. they keep talking in substantives--"free markets are dead"--well they're neither dead nor alive because they haven't existed. they're fictions. it's be a whole lot easier, i think, for the money people to navigate this if they could relativize their own position--and that inability is simply mirrored in the press accounts.
i have to go wrestle chickens.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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