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Louis Hyman is assistant professor of history at Cornell University. He is the author of Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink, Borrow: The American Way of Debt, and American Capitalism: A Reader.

So the high prices in the ghetto are not related to lack of competition, higher insurance rates, economies of scale, higher rates of "shrinkage" or lack of hardworking employees.

I guess they never heard of combat pay.

1 posted on 05/03/2015 4:55:05 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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Help this poor man out. All businesses immediately leave Baltimore and all ghetto cities.


2 posted on 05/03/2015 4:57:10 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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They burned down the CVS because they are stupid, short-sighted subhuman thugs.


3 posted on 05/03/2015 4:57:25 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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What a Libtard.
Tell it to the owners, employees, insurance company and the people in the area that used the store for their prescriptions and groceries.


4 posted on 05/03/2015 4:58:13 PM PDT by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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The main reason the CVS was looted then torched was because of the Oxy and other controlled drugs that the looters took first.


5 posted on 05/03/2015 4:58:24 PM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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It’s always somebody else fault with these people.


6 posted on 05/03/2015 4:58:26 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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What? They burnt it to protest corporate donations to Obama at the expense of blacks?

They burned it to protest the constant use of blacks by Slate to profit from clicks and ad dollars? Without doing squat for blacks or ‘giving back’?

Those ‘depridations?


7 posted on 05/03/2015 4:58:54 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Apparently the black communities want to do business with and commune with their own kind - AKA self-segregate. Who am I to object?


8 posted on 05/03/2015 4:59:15 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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The reason the CVS burned was because it was built in the middle of a third world hellhole full of coddled, spoiled, indolent, work-shy, bone-idle ingrates.

Other than that, I think he may be on to something.


9 posted on 05/03/2015 4:59:20 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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Not sure they didn’t think of it as ‘their own’....the ghettos had barely begun to coalesce in the 1960’s never mind the 1940’s when race riots also burned and looted their own


10 posted on 05/03/2015 4:59:28 PM PDT by erlayman
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Most people can sympathize with the anger on display this week in the streets of Baltimore.

Not even close; only brain-dead liberals.

11 posted on 05/03/2015 4:59:29 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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Well that article has to be the biggest load of tripe I’ve read all week. They want to completely excuse criminal behavior for the colored people, don’t they?


13 posted on 05/03/2015 5:00:09 PM PDT by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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Now these communities can look forward to 50 years of zero capital investment, boarded up storefronts, greater deprivation and even less economic opportunity.

I can tell you what I’d do as the CEO of CVS. Raze the burned out husk of a store, embed I beams and steel reinforced cement posts on the property and leave it as a complete eyesore and constant reminder of the self-inflicted economic damage the community visited upon itself.

I’d continue to pay property tax but I would never, under any circumstance rebuild.


14 posted on 05/03/2015 5:00:34 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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15 posted on 05/03/2015 5:01:53 PM PDT by Bratch
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They did not experience those places as their own

Because the socialists created urban renewal, section 8 housing, etc. At the same time attacking private property ownership. So yeah, dimwit - because of commies like you.

16 posted on 05/03/2015 5:02:18 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Why the CVS burned? Slate? Let me guess...Bush's,and Bush's,and Reagan's,and Ford's,and Nixon,and Eisenhower's fault?
17 posted on 05/03/2015 5:02:20 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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The Roman army had a long-term solution to problems like these...


19 posted on 05/03/2015 5:02:33 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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TOTAL UNABASHED PURE 100% USDA BOVINE EXCREMENT!!!

I have been in slums outside of major cities in south and central America. The locals never burn their neighborhoods. THUGS in USA burn their own neighborhoods and now have an entire media complex that blames the stores the THUGS burned for getting burned. talk about blaming the victim.


21 posted on 05/03/2015 5:04:30 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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We won’t know till we find out who started the fire. I bet it will not be a local resident of Baltimore and probably not Maryland.


23 posted on 05/03/2015 5:05:36 PM PDT by ThomasThomas ("YOUR BADGE! SHOW HIM YOUR BADGE!")
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first off, it was criminal hooliganism

second, to the extent it was a “protest of the black economy” ... the author can now ask... in just what way.... this violent “protest” has improved the econommy

know anyone who wants to invest capital and hire labor in Baltimore now?


25 posted on 05/03/2015 5:06:05 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people g)
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“The rioting in Baltimore wasn’t hooliganism. It was a protest against the depredations of the ghetto economy.”

Why are you stupid, Louis?


26 posted on 05/03/2015 5:06:07 PM PDT by lowbridge
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