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Economics

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Matt Welch | 5.10.2011 1:49 PM

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The Urban Land Institute's Ed McMahon explains to the Washington Examiner why it is the D.C. economy continues to boom:

It makes sense -- as the economy has grown worse in other parts of the country, we hire more and more people here to figure out how to fix it.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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