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7 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“The problem is if you let them go in the private sector and join this completely insane level of remunerations that you observe in the private sector — this is the problem.”
02 / evaluation
“In fact, the increase of the relative price of real estate asset relative to, say, stock market prices or financial assets is actually relatively good overall for the middle class as compared to the very top because the middle class owns mostly real estate, whereas the top owns mostly financial and business assets.”
03 / evaluation
“To me, it’s clear that the key reason why the US has been an economic leader at the world level for most of the 20th century is because it was an educational leader.”
04 / evaluation
“I think the history of equality or inequality cannot just be an economic history. It has to be a political history because, if you want to account for what you see, if you want to explain what you see, it’s political processes — sometimes revolution, sometimes tax reform, sometimes political confrontation of all sorts — play a major role.”
05 / evaluation
“I think the current European parliament is not enough because in the end, it’s really the national parliament — the German Bundestag, the French Assemblée nationale — who have the political legitimacy to make their taxpayer pay more or less tax and to take budgetary decisions.”
06 / evaluation
“This is what we did almost 10 years ago. That’s not going to explain, for example, what happens at the top of the distribution because real estate is absolutely ineligible when you look at the billionaire wealth.”
07 / evaluation
“Because then, people will tell you, “You care about this kind of expropriation and injustices, but you don’t care about this other kind.”