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Sub-Prime Economic TheoryThe insistence that those responsible for today’s financial crisis pay a price lest they repeat their mistakes – the so called moral hazard argument – recalls the great American orator William Jennings Bryan’s immortal “cross of gold” speech: “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor a crown of thorns.

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And we're all walking on this path, and we're pulling these thickets out of the way, and these thorns, making it easier for the ones coming after us.

[Only blood, only dust,] [only naked footsteps on the thorns?]

But very soon after, there was a man who took the scissors and cut my clothes, and then they took the thorns of the rose and stuck them in my stomach.

Nanahuatl had nothing but cactus thorns with which to bleed himself, and fir branches to paint with his red offering, but he resolved to try his best.

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