Why economists keep getting policies wrong
19 Feb, 2021 04:28 AM
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The growing debt load in the current climate is something we should be concerned about, writes Philip Stevens.
The growing debt load in the current climate is something we should be concerned about, writes Philip Stevens.
Financial Times
By: Philip Stephens The other week I caught sight of a headline declaring that the IMF was warning against cuts in public spending and borrowing. The report stopped me in my tracks. After half a century or so as keeper of the sacred flame of fiscal prudence, the IMF was telling policymakers in rich industrial nations they should not fret over huge build-ups of public debt during the Covid-19 crisis. John Maynard Keynes had been disinterred, and the world turned upside down.
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Salma Hayek says there is discrimination also to rich men
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Salma Hayek reveals people discriminate against rich men
Salma Hayek is responding to the hate she has been getting ever since she tied the knot with husband François-Henri Pinault 15 years ago.
The Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shephard that there is discrimination against wealthier men.
To a question about Pinault having loads of money, Hayek said, And, you know, when I married him, everybody said, Oh, it s arranged marriage, she married him for the money. I m like, Yeah, whatever, [expletive]. Think what you want. Fifteen years together, and we are strong in love. And I don t even get offended, I m like, Yeah, whatever.