what the free market costs

"contracting is out of control and that the new president needs to do something about it."

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what would john kenneth galbraith say?

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith


Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
John Kenneth Galbraith


The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith


We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
John Kenneth Galbraith


It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Bob Woodward on Fresh Air

Bob Woodward has just finished The War Within his fourth book about the Bush Administration.

For cliff notes, listen to him discuss his new work with Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

If you were born in the 1980s or after, Woodward is one-half of the reporting team that broke the Watergate scandal.