American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
JOSEPH STIGLITZClimate 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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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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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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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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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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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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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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If the President asked you to help, I don’t think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn’t be effective.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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