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Mariana Mazzucato and Raghuram Rajan on Building Back Post-Pandemic

Counterpoint

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The Inequality of the Economy

The wealth of billionaires has risen from five trillion to 13 trillion in just the last 12 months. We should remember that this also happened a financial crisis, he says. The most urgent task upon taking office was to shore up the same banks that helped cause this crisis. If there's one thing that has unified democrats and republicans and everybody in between, it's that we all hated the bank bailout.

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