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Obvious Things That Nonetheless Need to Be Said

Jesse Walker | 2.12.2009 9:17 AM

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George Selgin distinguishes good deflation from bad.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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