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sixmeatbuffet.com - 11/14/2008
Liberal Economics
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Socialist-utopian restaurant can’t survive in the real world . First bad decision? Letting the customers set their own prices. For nearly a year, Salt Lake City’s One World Cafe - founded on the altruistic goal of letting customers set their own meal price - has been on a crash ...
New Deal economics
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/9/2008
New Deal economics
— krugman.blogs.nytimes.com — Everybody's talking new New Deal these days - and, predictably, the FDR-haters are out in force, with... all the usual claims about FDR having actually made the Great Depression worse. (To the right, way back when, FDR was "That Man." Now Obama is "that ... (more) New Deal economics

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Is This a Joke?
Chicago Boyz — ... I could have sworn that someone was pulling my leg when I read this post over at Six Meat Buffet. No one could possibly imagine that I could be taken in by some tall tale of a Socialist restaurant where the patrons pay what they think is fair, or “what they could afford”. ...

There’s No Such Thing As a “Free Lunch”
Cold Fury — ... that there aren’t as many jobs available as there used to be before employers had to pay for “social responsibilities,” in addition to paying for the value of an employee’s work.“paying”?–don’t be silly, Professor. It’s a Free, Free, Free, Free, Free, Free, Free World, baby. It had better be since we’re all now countin’ on Paul to rob Peter on our behalf, without Peter getting mad, checking in to the Patmos Holiday Inn and going all apocalyptic on us. Heaven help us. And not to the free lunch buffet , either. That’s the real reason the Three-Martini-Media were so ...

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