Community Quote by Kenneth Rogoff

“People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.”

Kenneth Rogoff

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It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families…

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I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I…

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... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and…

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Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.

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Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.

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There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer,…

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The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer…

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Unbridled capitalism will lead to some very real problems.

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Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

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Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough

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If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on…

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Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills.

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