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A pernicious distraction from the need for fiscal & monetary policy to generate full employment

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Jan 04, 2021
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Two issues that I am passionate about are the merits of immigration to building American prosperity and national power, and the importance of full employment to building worker power and driving economic progress. Oren Cass, a former Mitt Romney aid who is perhaps the leading light of ongoing efforts to construct some kind of actual cohe…

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