Freakonomics Radio (9/28/17; Why Larry Summers is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love) Larry Summers: (On infrastructure) “I think we’ve completely mismanaged infrastructure investment in the United States. It’s nuts that when interest rates are lower than they’ve been at any time in the last 50 years that we’re also investing less net of depreciation…it’s […]
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