Interest Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

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Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest…

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The recovery of the banks is what happens when you reduce competition, lend money to them at zero interest rates, allow them…

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Negative effects on the economy were covered up with a flood of liquidity from the Fed. That,plus lax regulation, led to a…

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The decision-making process in the White House does not let most issues get up to the President. The Council thought opening up…

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In the midst of the East Asian crisis, there were choices. One choice would have been to encourage countries to implement a…

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In the U.S., you couldn't have job creation with interest rates of 30 or 40 percent. They had a philosophy that said…

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The IMF insisted that both Russia and Brazil maintain their currency at over-valued levels. Who are you protecting when you try to…

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When you think of policies that are going to address inequality of wealth, you have to be very thoughtful about what economists…

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Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central…

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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

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But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

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China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

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Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those…

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Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they…

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It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much…

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In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So not only…

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The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

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A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.

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As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability -…

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We noted the psychological problems facing many of the returning from Iraq veterans - of the 700,000 returning veterans, more than a 100,000 have…

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World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get…

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Moreover, because we chose to finance the way by borrowing, our deficits and debt has soared, and this means we have less room for…

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I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person…

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The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual,I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages…

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