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The most intelligent thing I’ve read about economics in a long time. It also implicitly speaks to what role government can play to help alleviate the natural conflicts of the “free market”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[23],"tags":[28],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3IMYj-31","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":110,"url":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=110","url_meta":{"origin":187,"position":0},"title":"Economics…the dismal science","author":"kellio","date":"November 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Banks are not using the Fed bailout money to ease the tight credit market.\u00a0 They are using it to shore up their balance sheets and consider acquisitions of weaker banks who were perhaps not able to get as much bailout money.\u00a0 It is simply making the concept of \"too big\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Stories\/Observations"","block_context":{"text":"Stories\/Observations","link":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?cat=11"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":710,"url":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=710","url_meta":{"origin":187,"position":1},"title":"Pope Francis: Keep talking…I’m interested.","author":"kellio","date":"January 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Pope Francis is doing three things I've never seen in religion before (in my lifetime): \u00a0 1) Being extremely relevant to our daily lives, 2) Potentially offending powerful people\u00a0, and 3)\u00a0Leading. \u00a0I'm going to focus on his comments on Capitalism because that is my area of interest. 1) Being extremely\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"economics\"","block_context":{"text":"economics","link":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?tag=economics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":67,"url":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=67","url_meta":{"origin":187,"position":2},"title":"Ellio.tt – Can I get a donation?","author":"kellio","date":"April 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Chasingeden.com is a good domain. 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