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Countries like Spain, Greece, and Ireland developed real-estate bubbles, grew faster, and developed trade deficits with the rest of the eurozone, while Germany – weighed down by the costs of reunification – reined in its labor costs, became more competitive and developed a chronic trade surplus.

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Reservations are cut up into 160-acre sections, and distributed to individual Indians with the surplus disposed of.

Most of the surplus land and many of the plots within reservation boundaries are now in the hands of white ranchers.

I moved there primarily to be part of a learning environment that validated the way that I knew that kids learned, and that really wanted to investigate what was possible when you are willing to let go of some of the paradigms of the past, of information scarcity when my grandmother was in school and when my father was in school and even when I was in school, and to a moment when we have information surplus.

Our cities, I would put to you, are stockpiles of these surplus capacities.

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