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Related: About this forumLarry Summers on Economic Policies of Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz
I would only add that it is thanks to the efforts of Bernie Sanders that this discussion is actually taking place. I believe we used to call that good leadership.
hey Larry, if Bernie can tie your speculative balloon to the tide of reality on the ground (transaction tax) you might see the real economy grow. Imagine that, real pie in the sky...must be a quantum thing.
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(39,215 posts)crash about the economy. No thanks.
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(24,720 posts)Quotes:
"Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient."
"It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets."
"It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century."
"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it."
"We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises."
"In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."
"Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response."
"The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history."
So in closing Mr. Summers .....................
Where is your morality, lack of conscience, no remorse ----------------of hurting people based on the premise, to blame those that do have the means to fight against the political corruption and economic policies corruption, of those that create this crap based on pure greed
Honk-----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016