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One thing that is plain from the brief unhappy history of campus speech codes is that you automatically raise the value of the speech you punish and depress the value of the speech you sponsor.
Paul agrees that such a rise in national savings might have some tendency to depress the economy, along lines of Keynes' multiplier model.
Also, the arrival of this huge pot of money looking for a home will depress returns in the private economy, while the need to attract an equally huge pot of money into the Treasury to replace the lost revenue will increase the returns on government bonds.
The statutory protections set forth in the H-2A program, and the provision of legal representation to H-2A workers to enforce these rights, thus were intended to accomplish two purposes: to protect foreign workers from exploitation, and to ensure that the employment of such workers would not depress the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers.
The Saudis could single-handedly depress the market by flooding it with oil, as they did in 1986 in order to discipline recalcitrant OPEC members.