I don't usually read conservative websites. But this is intelligent and enlightening, though flawed. "These days left-libertarians feel vindicated. American foreign policy has embroiled the country in endless overt and covert wars, with their high cost in blood and treasure, in the resource-rich Middle East and Central Asia--with torture, indefinite detention, and surveillance among other assaults on domestic civil liberties thrown in for good measure. Meanwhile, the historical Washington-Wall Street alliance--in which recklessness with other people's money, fostered by guarantees, bailouts, and Federal Reserve liquidity masquerades as deregulation--has brought yet another financial crisis with its heavy toll for average Americans, additional job insecurity, and magnified Wall Street influence." |
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