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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T10:35:45.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "#Column3",
    "2008 financial crisis",
    "Adam Smith",
    "Beau Albrecht",
    "Economics",
    "food monopolies",
    "George H. W. Bush administration",
    "George W. Bush administration",
    "Healthcare",
    "inflation",
    "medical insurance",
    "North American New Right",
    "Obama administration",
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    "Oded Yinon Plan",
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  "textContent": "If you’ve had anything to eat in the last few years, surely you’ve experienced sticker shock. I knew there was something up when I couldn’t do a modest grocery run without my pocketbook being lightened by over two hundred bucks. As for restaurant food, even proletarian chow like burgers and fried chicken is starting to […]",
  "title": "Inflation and Other Dysfunctions of the Voodoo Economy"
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