Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.
JONATHAN ADAIR TURNERThis isn’t a stable system.
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In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.
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The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don’t tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000.
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If we don’t constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.
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The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
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This isn’t a stable system.
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In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.
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Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities
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The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised.
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We’re not where we should be in terms of our national economies.
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All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.
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We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders
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We don’t know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.
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If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you’re going to have a problem.
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In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.
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