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“The Exploding Bubbles Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon Were Made in Washington”

The American economy is not recovering because we’re still in the hangover of 30 years of debt buildup. 
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“The American economy is not recovering because we’re still in the hangover of 30 years of debt buildup,” David Stockman, the former budget director for Ronald Reagan said in a recent talk at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, MA. 

Stockman’s talk was entitled “This Ain’t Market Capitalism: The Exploding Bubbles Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon Were Made in Washington.”

Watch Stockman’s talk here. 

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