Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
JOSEPH STIGLITZMacroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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What you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.
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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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When you don’t have equality of opportunity because you don’t have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.
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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
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The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy are to spend money on common needs.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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