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                                   April 29, 2001
   
The business cycle considered           
as a generator of diversity.        NOWHERE_PUNK           
Different strategies are                                  
employed when times are "good"                                    
or "bad".                                                        
                                    Note the way that fields         
   Infinite prosperity              of slick, freshly built         
   would be an                      condos can leave people         
   unambiguous good                 half-way seriously       
   only to the extent               praying for recessions or         
   that infinite                    earthquakes.             
   freedom is, and it                                         
   always runs up                        
   against the walls of                              
   human stupidty.            UNINTENDED      
                                             
       
But this is not an argument for
tighter governmental control.
       
If unlimited freedom can be          
problematic for individuals,        
it's disastrous for governments.
                          
                    DRAG 
What is is, is an                                
argument for *drag*.                  As opposed to            
                                      the naive free           
                                      market argument        
   Checks and                         that transaction            
   balances aren't                    costs of zero              
   only appropriate                   would be good.        
   just for                                             
   government.                              Less drag --> 
                                            greater *efficiency*. 
                                                                
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