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The financial system needs more capital and less complexity

As the Fed ponders the Basel III rules, we should aim for a regulatory structure that is simple and boring

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The IMF is an anchor adrift in a changing world economy

Western countries are over-represented but there are formidable obstacles to reform

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More of your crazy economics questions, answered

Last year, inspired by Randall Munroe’s delightful books What If? and What If? 2, I invited the good folk of Twitter to ask me absurd hypothetical questions about the economy, to which I would attempt some serious answers. This year, we’re going to do it

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Cautionary Tales – Martin Luther King Jr, the Jewelry Genius, and the art of public speaking (CLASSIC)

One speechmaker inspired millions with his words, the other utterly destroyed his own multi-million-dollar business with just a few phrases. Civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr (played by Jeffrey Wright of Westworld, The Hunger Gam

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