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“The very idea of a ‘free’ market has become synonymous with an ‘unregulated’ market—one that is unaccountable to the wider public that must act as a lender of last resort when their financial machinations come to a grinding halt due to an engineering flaw of their own design.”
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Emotionally heavy, artfully told, and timely. I hope that you take any compassion you feel for these characters & redirect it towards others you encounter, strangers who could have roots just as rough, tangled, distressing, and difficult as all the characters you meet on the journey to reach American dirt.
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"Focusing on those left behind during an era of unprecedented economic growth and increasing income inequality in places like Nicholas Kristof’s hometown of Yamhill, Oregon, Tightrope’s most powerful moments are in the stories of individuals struggling to get by—incarcerated, addicted, and, like 60 percent of all Americans, in debt."
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Every page of Rana Foroohar’s Don’t Be Evil is a revelation, a reinforcement for the ideas that have made our economy sustainable in the past, and have been largely discarded in the disruption Silicon Valley has spread throughout our economy.
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Emily Porter found the cover of Monique Truong's new book irresistible, and that it contained "the type of writing that makes you want to skip all of your responsibilities in order to ravish the pages until you take in every word."
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