Feeding zombies is a deadly move, but how is government to know which debtors are tomorrow’s write-offs? On BusinessWeek.com, Peter Coy writes, “When a big employer runs into trouble, it’s tempting to keep it going at any cost. Economists call this ‘lemon socialism’—the investment of public money in the worst companies rather than the best. [...]
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