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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (11974)	12/19/2001 12:10:18 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The hardcover copy I am looking at does not have "middle clam," but the "s"s in "class" are sort of blobby and run together, so that explains why your .pdf file has "middle clam" - it was scanned and did not get picked up by spell check. Spell check only tells you if a word is misspelled, and won't pick up the wrong word if it's spelled right. As for Rothbard, I am well aware that he has a political philosophy, which is exactly why I approach him with caution, as I do with everyone who has a political philosophy. One of the reasons the Great Depression is so poorly understood, in my opinion, is that people who study it have theories and philosophies. Many of them are leftists, who use anecdotal evidence to prove their theory that the Great Depression was caused by the inherent contradictions of capitalism. Using an absurd argument for the purpose of making a point, you would not expect me to write a history of the Nasdaq bubble based only on the writings of Mary Meeker and Henry Blodgett or Warren Buffett, right? Mostly what I want to do is accumulate facts and put them in chronological order. I can't prove that an event which preceded another event "caused" the subsequent event, unless there is an incontrovertible causal connection.