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Economics

Altamont Business Cycle Theory

Jesse Walker | 12.6.2009 7:00 AM

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Altamont never would have happened if the feds hadn't bailed out Woodstock.

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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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