They were high school buddies who played soccer for Bentley University known as Bentley College then a decade ago.

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Apparently prodded by the once-great Bruce Bartlett, little-known Bentley College economics professor Scott Sumner is the latest self-proclaimed intellectual in the world of tenure to take on the notion of a gold-defined dollar.

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