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Fixing the Euro Zone and Reducing Inequality, Without Fleecing the Rich

Harvard Business Review

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. A payment of cash to Eurozone households of 3-5% of GDP would probably suffice to generate a recovery.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. Unamano’s purpose wouldn’t be to raise cash and spread it around.

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What If Investors Who Held Their Shares Longer Got More Voting Power?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, if more American companies were focused on the long term, they estimate, investors would have an additional $1 trillion, workers would have an additional 5 million jobs, and the country would have more than an additional $1 trillion in GDP. One capital form is debt: a bond.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

It’s true of GDP. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. That is true of the unemployment rate. It’s true of all commodity markets.