American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
JOSEPH STIGLITZBitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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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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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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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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