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A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

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Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

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You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

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In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

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I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

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It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.

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Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

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Biography

Nationality: Jamaican

Type: Economist

Born: July 30th, 1969

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