Price Fishback (WTF?) says we're not going to end up eating road kill in this short, to the point analysis of the current economic woes: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/this-is-not-another-great-depression/?pagemode=print.
I was never any good in economics. I think I made A's and B's in undergrad but it was a struggle. In grad school, microeconomic theory came pretty close to deep sixing me--I hated that class then and I hate the son of a bitch today. Goddamn, I hated it. After I made it out, I was rummaging around in the little storeroom of my first house and saw the textbook for that class lying on a shelf. Right then and there, I decided that it was time for Mr. Microeconomics Smarty Pants to get a return lesson. The book, all classic and scholarly looking found itself sitting upright next to a mesquite tree on a friend's ranch--I'm sure it thought, "why the awful field trip to this god forsaken cactus infested place?" right up to the point where it saw me standing about fifty yards away with a Remington 700, chambered with 150 grain 30.06 Federal bullets. "You're a long way from goddamn Cambridge, now, aren't you motherfucker?" were the last words the son of a bitch ever heard. As an old cowboy once told me, "There's just some things that need killing."
For the record, a 30.06 will kill a micro textbook. I shot it three times for good measure.
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That's good shooting, soldier!
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