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>"Interest rates were low for years. Imagine how much the country could have gotten done."

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>"Market booms and busts might be irrational, but we can understand why they happen – and what to do to mitigate the damage"

"Hernan Diaz’s new novel audaciously tells a tale of American capital—again, and again, and again."

>"Digital communication in its current form is corrosive to culture and community. But ritual and narrative can repair the damage."

>"Nothing we can do will make the world more free, fair and prosperous than giving women control over their own bodies"