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Knightskye
03-23-2009, 01:41 AM
TWO QUITE DIFFERENT BOOKS on the economic crisis share the same one-word title: Meltdown. The first is a collection of articles from The Nation -- "America's leading progressive weekly." The second was written by Ludwig von Mises Institute senior fellow Thomas E. Woods Jr., and includes a foreword by libertarian Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.

I found Meltdown II a must-read. Writing with remarkable clarity and occasional mordant humor, Thomas Woods makes a compelling argument for a radical turn to the free market as the only way to prevent meltdowns from recurring. Not that The Nation reporters don't contribute a ...

By the looks of it, they liked the book. :)

EDIT:
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB123758858202899965.html?mod=googlenews_barrons

Chase
03-23-2009, 02:13 AM
You can coerce the full text out of Barrons by following this Google News link:

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22a%20tale%20of%20two%20meltdowns%22&oe=utf-8&rls=org.gentoo:en:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn

Knightskye
03-26-2009, 03:02 AM
Ah, wow. I didn't know that.

Thank you. :)