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Athletes’ Salaries Too High? Sports Fans, Blame Yourselves
Gene Callahan is the author of Economics for Real People. I was sitting in a sports bar recently when the bartender and three of the patrons near me began discussing the salary of New York Yankee third-baseman Alex Rodriguez. (Rodriguez currently makes roughly $25 million per season.) One of the customers said it was absurd [...]
1Jul2007 | Gene Callahan | 56 comments | Continued-
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