Re: Owing It To Ourselves
February 1, 2013
Karen: If we just “owe it to ourselves,” let us just repudiate it to ourselves! This is a much better “solution” to the national debt problem than is the minting of a $10 trillion platinum coin.
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.

