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Robert Merton says an understanding of risk is important for analyzing the global meltdown, and George Soros explains the role risk played in the economic crisis.
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Robert Merton pinpoints our place in the chronology of the economic crisis (October 2008).
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A former Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers sees the value in smart regulations.
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Obama’s top economic adviser on the virtue of free markets.
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George Soros has always tried to weld market success to overall economic success.
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Lawrence Summers talks about the disadvantages of using the financial markets to explain the overall economy.
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Booz & Company’s Tom Stewart with a summary of the Big Think global economic forum.
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Has President Obama’s provocative economic adviser found his way?
Robert Merton asks why there aren’t regulatory bodies to oversee economic calamity.
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President Obama’s top economic adviser predicts the long-term success of America.
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Lawrence Summers provides a capsule of the last hundred years of American economic output.
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George Soros says energy investments will fuel America’s next boom.
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Peter Thiel articulates the divergent perspectives on what brought the U.S. economy to the brink.
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Peter Thiel on whether the United State is the next Japan.
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Peter Thiel explains the lessons learned from the burst of the technology bubble.
Peter Thiel on what the decline of hedge funds means for Main Street.
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Peter Thiel provides full context for the current economic crisis.
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Oliver Sacks discusses the intersection of writing and medicine.
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Oliver Sacks remembers his first encounter with sleeping sickness.
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Oliver Sacks discusses some bizarre cases from his most recent book "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain."