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...A decade or so ago, Brad Pitt was interested in making a film about Rory Stewart. Stewart had run an Iraqi province. He had walked across Afghanistan....
...In fact, the main worry now as inflation starts slowing is that we could see a repeat instead of the [George] Osborne austerity post-financial crisis; that could cause serious further and sustained damage...
...Two years earlier George Osborne, then Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, had said that the Chinese currency would “become almost as familiar as the dollar” within his lifetime....
...Other readables Ben Bernanke’s story is one of tragedy, writes, Brad DeLong....
...Finally, as we have discussed before, Brad DeLong has made a strong case that the nature of the 21st-century economy means we should aim for much higher public debt levels than before....
...And as Brad De Long has argued so thoughtfully, the likely nature of the 21st-century economy is such as to require more publicly provided goods than before....
...Chancellor George Osborne did not, however, produce expensive, eye-catching rabbits....
...He AstroTurfed the roof with a £10,000 Lottery grant, christening it Dalston Roof Park, and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt held a birthday party there in 2012....
...And yet, as Brad DeLong explains, Keynes worried that the “Malthusian devil” had only been chained: “Now perhaps we have loosed him again.”...
...- Brad DeLong on confusion....
...My wife tells me that Brad Pitt is also very easy on the eye. Jonathan Osborne, Portola Valley, CA, US...
...“Growing numbers of Australians want to fully experience their country,” Osborne says. “The majority also own real estate....
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