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The Ideas Marketplace — Sans Market?

by Fred L. Smith | Mar 3, 2006

WASHINGTON — The Jack Abramoff scandal has many individual players, but it’s also added fuel to an older and broader theme — the quest to purge politics of money. Well, at least, money provided by business. Money provided by government…