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Is Obama more Austrian than Clinton?

Is Obama more Austrian than Clinton?

Here is a funny column on Marketwatch that argues that “While Obama, despite his University of Chicago connections, is no Friedrich Hayek, he is closer to the Austrian economist’s classic notion of ‘liberal’ - i.e. favoring market forces over government fiat - than his Democratic rival.” Probably true in the same way that Alaska is closer than the North Pole to being a tropical paradise.

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