However, the U.S. health care system will eat infinite amounts of money if no one pushes back.

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When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money.

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There was a New Era in technology at the turn of the century that said the Internet was worth an infinite amount of money.

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American K-12 education has an infinite capacity to absorb money, even to go through the motions of doing what the donor wants--so long as the outside funding lasts.

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Alan, the great piano tuner, in his infinite but indirect wisdom, kept money market rates so low that the banks could arbitrage money and dig themselves out of their management-made mud slides.

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And, back in 2007, the markets pretty much dealt with the Greek government as if it had infinite debt capacity, lending to it all of the money it wanted, at interest rates only slightly higher than those charged to Germany.

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