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Gangster affordability - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

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Trump's strategy for bringing down prices might work in the short term, but the long-term costs could be very high.

“Damn it feels good to be a gangsta/ Gettin' voted into the White House” — Geto Boys I recently listened to an audiobook about the Napoleonic Wars. Overall, the book wasn’t very good, but there was one interesting part where it described Napoleon’s ruling style as being mafia-like. His insistence that other European countries buy French exports, his attempts to shut Britain out of European trade, and a bunch of his other economic policies were fundamentally gangster-ish — they were ad hoc impositions of personal power, often with an eye toward taking revenge on personal enemies and…

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