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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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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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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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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When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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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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We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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Climate change is a reality.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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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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