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The $700 Billion Questions

Wall Street and Washington’s wrecking crew aim to get the most expensive free lunch in American history

By David Sirota

If a museum in the next superpower nation ever commemorates the decline of the last great superpower, it will make the two-and-a-half page bill introduced this week the center of the display. Just as they do today at the National Archives’ Declaration of Independence exhibit, tourists in the future—perhaps in Beijing, perhaps somewhere else—will line up to see a framed draft… return to article

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