Riding the Train

When I was about 7 years old, my mother brought me to Chicago from our post-war suburb of McHenry. What an adventure! Though my father rode the train every day to his job so that my mother had use of our family’s one car, this was my first train trip. I remember the gentle rolling [...]

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Nationalization of Banking

“Banking is not yet nationalized; but it will be, because the public gain from nationalization will lead people to vote for it when they understand it just as they will vote for nationalization of the coal mines. Business people need capital to start and extend their businesses just as they need coal to warm themselves. [...]

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