Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
Neil Howe • 1 highlight
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The so-called “free-market system” has created perverse incentives for business leaders to “take the money and run.” Propounding the myth that markets are self-regulating, opportunists mastered tactics to drive up short-term stock prices and apparent profitability, and they rewarded themselves with handsome bonuses for doing so. Their freedom to sk
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The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
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In Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, the journalist Chrystia Freeland describes how those with massive financial resources almost universally use them to secure policies beneficial to their interests, often at the expense of the less well-off. In the United States, a number of studies have shown that i
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A team of researchers at Stanford University, led by an economist named Raj Chetty, used newly accessible data from the Internal Revenue Service to write a series of papers that addressed questions of opportunity in American life. One, titled “The Fading American Dream,” asked a simple question: How likely is it that an American child will be bette
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