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** WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2020
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The credit expansion boom is built on the sands of banknotes and deposits. It must collapse.
– Ludwig von Mises, Human Action ([link removed]) [1949]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 19, 2020
Drug War Obtuseness ([link removed])
Sometimes I wonder how super-smart people can be so obtuse when it comes to the drug war. A recent example of this phenomenon is Ioan Grillo, a contributing editor for the New York Times. Grillo is the author of two books on the drug war: El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, which was translated into five languages and was a Los Angeles Times Book ...
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