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70s when the studebaker auto company went bankrupt. the federal government said, gee, we better insure these. weve done pretty well over the last 40 years over the rules on this. this thing theyre talking about doing now, we did it in the 2012 highway bill. we let corporations underfund their 2014. this is extending the period through 2017 in order to pick up more revenue. >> its just the most perfect little window into, like, what it takes to get, like, the basic mechanisms of any kind of gover...

Willing to call this anything like prosperity. >> i have to ask you about this because this is the spat between two celebrity economists. ken rogoff and carmen rinehart which countries start growing much, much more slowly. they wrote a letter back because you criticized them for feeding this austerity mania which caused governments to slash spending and they say you have engaged in spectacularly uncivil behavior in the past weeks and you attacked us in very personal terms, virtually nonstop. you...

Ken rogoff and carmen rinehart which countries start growing much, much more slowly. they wrote a letter back because you criticized them for feeding this austerity mania which caused governments to slash spending and they say you have engaged in spectacularly uncivil behavior in the past weeks and you attacked us in very personal terms, virtually nonstop. you have doubled down, your characterization of our work to is selective and shallow. it is deeply misleading. you were graduate students in ...