Trump Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

18 Trump quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz offers 18 pointed observations on Trump, drawing on his economic expertise to highlight policy implications and global effects.

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America will suffer under Trump.

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Trump can bring jobs back, but they will be minimal-wage jobs, not the high-paying jobs of the 1950s.

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If Trump actually wants to help those who have been left behind, he must go beyond the ideological battles of the past.

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Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.

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Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis.

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

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When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

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America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision.

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A politically astute president who understood deeply the economics and politics of corporate tax reform could conceivably muscle Congress toward a reform…

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Trump will fail even in his proclaimed goal of reducing the trade deficit, which is determined by the disparity between domestic savings…

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Our economy has not served large fractions of our population. Trump grasped that. And rather than saying, "What have we not done…

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If there is a silver lining in the Trump cloud, it is a new sense of solidarity over core values such as…

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Donald Trump's astonishing victory in the U.S. presidential election has made one thing abundantly clear: too many Americans - particularly white male…

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America and the world are paying a high price for devotion to the extreme anti-government ideology embraced by Donald Trump and his…

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Trump is particularly unfit to serve because he approaches these without any view of what the truth is, and he approaches these…

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The basic thing that made Trump popular is that he blamed others for the problems that we have in the United States.…

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For the United States, our political system is clearly distorted. We have gerrymandering so that there is a situation where a million…

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When Donald Trump campaigned for president, he told the American people that he would be a different type of Republican, that he…

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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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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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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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