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Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Are We Going To Have A Recession?" video.
I'm Australian and in the same age group as you and you're right he's one of the brightest lights of his generation. He's not only damn smart but well educated combined with a far broader perspective on reality. Right now here in Australia the head of our central bank is exactly the sort of Ivory Tower Academic/Idiot that Gary has spoken about. There's times I have wondered if Gary is speaking about Britain or Australis.
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@alanhat5252 You are absolutely right. I went to college in America and America is fairly important to Australia considering the trade and military ties. So I watch a lot of what's happening there. Same story. I was watching Mariana Mazucatto talk about the problems with the consulting industry and almost the next day the PwC scandal broke in Australia and its only gotten worse since. The problem is that most of the economic text books are written by a relatively small group of people out of Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,... who all have the same basic ideology. The problem for ANY politician IRRESPECTIVE of the politics is that on ANY issue being discussed is in a room full of people who were all taught the same economics. That's why it feels like things don't change. The only subject where economists are silent is military spending.
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