A Snow and a shake, please!

06/29/2005 Mises Wire Sean Corrigan

Last night, US Treasury Secretary Snow was doing what all recent holders of his office have done - namely, he was blaming the rest of the world for America’s self-inflicted woes and trying to get them to inflate a little more as an offset. This is what we could call the McDonald’s school of economics, as is explained here

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