U.S. Politics Have Been Thoroughly Corrupted by Money, Sachs Says
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 20 November 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Harm Bandholz, UniCredit Chief U.S. Economist, says the time for tax reform is right but we don't need a tax cut in this environment. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University Professor, says the debt to GDP ratio has doubled in the last decade and will double again.Michael Nathanson, Moffettnathanson Founding Partner & Senior Research Analyst, says Twitter is not a great place for advertising and branding. Steve Hanke, Johns Hopkins University Professor, says the political mess and resulting hyperinflation in Zimbabwe is transferable to other nations.
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| 0:58.0 | It is very, very good to run in with Harm Bundles here this morning. |
| 1:05.0 | We'll talk on the U.S. economy and maybe even touch on Germany as well. |
| 1:09.4 | We've got headlines coming out. |
| 1:10.9 | The Walter Journal talking about Marvell in the semiconductor space |
| 1:14.0 | that's now an official deal Marvell and Cavian cavium to combine creating an |
| 1:21.7 | infrastructure is the lead headline right. |
| 1:24.0 | Harm bundles with us. Let's go big and broad here, harm on a Monday. |
| 1:29.0 | Do you believe in the president's 3% GDP, whatever the moment is he's talking about we can do a |
| 1:36.5 | sustained 3% or even higher. Do you buy it? |
| 1:40.3 | Unfortunately no. First of all we got to clarify sustain 3% growth means lifting |
| 1:45.6 | potential growth towards 3% not the last two quarters of 3% GDP growth which we |
| 1:50.6 | have seen for various reasons. |
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