It took us a decade to see the culmination of some of the bad ideas that had been put into place -- the lack of regulation on Wall Street, middle-class folks struggling.

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It is information - not a new law, not some regulation - just the provision of information that has enabled people to take on the political class, question them, demand answers, and get those answers.

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Or is it that macroeconomic policy has not allowed the creation of enough jobs for all, especially at the bottom of the ladder, leading to middle class anxiety which, combined with signaling effects, licensing regulation and what might be termed the Knowledge Economy Ideology, has created a credential arms race?

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His own beliefs, whether the monetarism that won him his Nobel in 1976 or the positions on taxes, regulation and social programs that won him wider attention and acclaim, made him more influential among the business class of the world than any other contemporary thinker.

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