“The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.”

—  Michael Hudson (economist)

" The $4.7 trillion pyramid: Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street http://www.harpers.org/archive/2005/04/0080499" in Harper's Magazine (April 2005)

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