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  • Pass a law to stop government overspending
    Pass a law to stop government overspending

    The UK and US seem to spend money as if there were a limitless supply. But Germany and most US states have laws to keep the government budget balanced.

  • The cost of insuring the financial industry
    The cost of insuring the financial industry

    For the last 50 years – or more – we have been taking part in a vast experiment: insuring against losses in the stock market. The result? The feds have spread the risk around so much that everybody pays for everybody else’s mistakes.

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Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

Sunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'

 
 
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