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Top Links 1098 Shrinking the Federal government. European convergence. Cod and the new Cold War, plus the origins of desert blues.

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May 10, 2026
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Georg Scholz, Kakteen und Semaphore, 1923

The US federal government payroll is now at levels last seen in 1966 when the population was 150 m smaller and the economy was one quarter its current size.

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