Urban Humanist

James Surowiecki, in a recent New Yorker, offers a short history of Fannie and Freddie, titled Sponsoring Recklessness: Financial Page: The New Yorker. His title makes the interesting point about the relation between markets and the state. When is private enterprise merely that? And, where does the line for public responsibility for private failure lie. [...]

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