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Back In The Days When The Market Was A Kind Of Secular God And All The World Thrilled To Behold The Amazing Powers Of Private Capital, The Idea Of Privatizing Highways And Airports And Other Bits Of Our Transportation Infrastructure Made A Certain Kind Of Sense.

The Obama Administration's Plan Is To Have The Federal Reserve Regulate Banks That Might Pose A 'systemic Risk' If They Were To Fail.

It Is Always A Disappointment To Turn From Forthright Consideration Of Some Subject - Whether From The Left Or The Right, A Poet Or A Plumber - To The Beltway Version, In Which The Only Aspects Of The Issue That Matter Are The Effects It Will Have On The Fortunes Of The Two Parties And The Various Men In Power.

Republicans Run The Machine When It's Their Turn, And Then Hand The Wheel Over To Democrats When The Public Has Had Enough.

Yes, Democrats Can Prove That America Pays More For Health Care Than Other Countries; Yes, They Have Won The Dispute That Private Health Insurance Is Needlessly Expensive. But What They've Lost Is The Argument That We Are A Society.