As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.
From Peter Blair Henry
You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.
I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.
In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.
Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.
It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.
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