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One sentence. i mean this is the last question. youve written that youre well studied. you are a leader, a thought leader for all of us in this field. you have written a book, the price of inquality, which means you have a very thorough comprehension in your own mind of what the price is. know thag you are an expert in the price of inquality and what the implied price could be, would you rather pay that price or rather reduce inequality given the choice? >> thats a softball. clearly, we need to ...

Even if you believe the lizard talk, the reality of the lack of food sh lack of jobs, lack of schools, massive wealth inquality, everybodys killing each other around the world, is evidence of the fact that whatever these yee has are saying, theyre not doing it and that is going to revolve itself one way or the other. >> two things. one, politics is about manipulation. its getting worse because what youre seeing is the people that have rigged the system can now spend whatever they want to protect...

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And their ability to grant power to the financers they are trying to curry favor from. we are now joined by a man who does know what economic reform looks like. former chairman of president clintons economic advisers and has a new book -- in stores now. do you think folks dont understand the danger of perpetuating and ignoring? i feel like were on apollo 13 pretending like its okay. >> im very much of the view that americans have not understood either the extent to which inquality has grown to t...

Things we sort of talk about. why is it that our leaders dont show more of that first step characteristic before they go with some plan to better do a ruthless evaluation of our choices, which seems to be a critical prerequisite. >> well, not only do they have to have a critical analysis of choices, they have to have the right diagnosis of what the the problems are and thats sometimes difficult. one of the problems of the united states is this persistent inquality. another quote related problem ...