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GARRISON KEILLOR
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In the shadow of the volcano
Here we are, ignorant peasants in our mud huts at the base of the volcano of finance, begging the gods to spare us as the ground shakes beneath our feet and economists examine the entrails of pigeons and the shamans of the Federal Reserve fling handfuls of sacred powder into the steaming crater. We live with a system rejiggered by Republicans -- freedom from regulation, but when the manure hits the ventilator, the Feds step in with a few hundred billion to rescue the players -- and nobody can tell us ignorant savages how rough the upheaval might be. Nobody knows.
When bureaucrats become pawns
In 1978, Republican Robert List was elected governor of Nevada with a 16 percentage point margin in a race in which 193,000 votes were cast.
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