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Zubin Jelveh/
July 13, 2009

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Nassim Taleb has an alternative to fiscal stimulus: debt-for-equity swaps.

Do we really know if stocks are great for the long run?

Who are those shadow banks anyway?

Is California breaking the federal government's monopoly on currency issuance?

And why aid to states should be an uncontroversial stimulus idea.

--Zubin Jelveh

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