It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
JOSEPH STIGLITZMultinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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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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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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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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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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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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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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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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