For many years in London, firefighting was provided privately by insurance companies. Oddly enough, the Americans rejected this model for the far-more-politicized fire department model we know today.
John H. Makin, American Enterprise Institute, writing in t he WSJ, on avoiding nationalization by destroying the dollar: In my view, the least bad option is for the Federal Reserve to print money to...
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