The New Normal II: Economic Developers, Export, and the Global Finance System

The New Normal II: Economic Developers, Export, and the Global Finance and Trade System
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram Rajan
Now the Curmudgeon trespasses into the world of export, global finance, and trade. Boundaries obviously mean little to him–should they mean much more to you our community economic developer? Is export more risky than often portrayed? Plus an added feature–how the Fault Lines of Global Finance brought the United States into the New Normal. How did forty years of stagnant wage and income levels lead to the accumulation of massive amount of debt that made financial collapse unavoidable?

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