Thomas Frank - Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled...

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Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

Thomas Frank

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Damals, als der Markt eine Art säkularer Gott war und die ganze Welt davon begeistert war, die erstaunlichen Kräfte des privaten Kapitals zu sehen, machte die Idee, Autobahnen und Flughäfen und andere Teile unserer Verkehrsinfrastruktur zu privatisieren, einen gewissen Sinn.

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