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Published · transcript-backedBrink Lindsey: prediction
1 Nov 2017 Conversations with Tyler Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy*
“I think on the whole, kind of neolistic economic disruption of pulling out of NAFTA would be worse on people at the bottom because that’s what bad times usually do.”
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- Brink Lindsey
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- 1 Nov 2017
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…If NAFTA collapses or is taken away by Trump, forget about aggregate income, but just the distribution of income, will that be more or less egalitarian if NAFTA collapses? Not sure. If NAFTA collapses, I think that’s very bad for the overall economy. It would cause all kinds of disruptions in the short to medium term. And in general, bad economic times are worse off or worst for those at the bottom. I think on the whole, kind of neolistic economic disruption of pulling out of NAFTA would be worse on people at the bottom because that’s what bad times usually do. Southern Thailand.…
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