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Aaron is 10% done with Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted is going to test my faith in humanity. It will Easily be the most depressing book of the year.

Amazing audiobook however. The librarys AB game is getting better.
Feb 17, 2018 03:23AM Add a comment
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Aaron
Aaron is 40% done with A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
"a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies"
Jan 28, 2018 10:22AM Add a comment
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

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Aaron is on page 98 of 258 of Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
Dean Baker's criticisms of patent law is piercing and on point: and his idea for replacing coprate income taxes with one time payment of non voting coprate stock is extremely interesting to say the least. It aligns coprate and public interests in a better way than the coprate income tax (especially since it could be done efficiently on a voluntary basis.
Jan 11, 2018 08:30PM Add a comment
Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer

Aaron
Aaron is on page 46 of 260 of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Rajan's analysis of Fannie and Freddie is deeply flawed: the idea that they where a driver to pushing the private sector to embrace subprime is a disproven idea: the number of so called subprime loans bought by the twins had a default rate of 3%. Banks had a rate of 6%. Private label MBS had default rates of 25%! Insisting that this is cheifly government failure is to ignore the greater market failure
Dec 23, 2017 08:42AM Add a comment
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

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