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Nick Shaxson for Prime Minister!
And rid the world of the inhuman blight known as “tax havens”.
Now and for ever!
Rather better than is the US where, just before Bloomberg’s Army went in, poor Joe Stiglitz had to write this is his column, “But, while the wealthy can use their money to amplify their views, back on the street, police wouldn’t allow me to address the OWS protesters through a megaphone. The contrast between overregulated democracy and unregulated bankers did not go unnoticed. But the protesters are ingenious: they echoed what I said through the crowd, so that all could hear. And, to avoid interrupting the ‘dialogue’ by clapping, they used forceful hand signals to express their agreement.”
Only a Nobel and 2 of the 20 best American Economic Review papers as voted for by fellow economists in the last century.
I see also that some of Greg Mankiw’s students at Harvard have walked out on him – see Krugman blog.