Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.
Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.
The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.
It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.
There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.
A society is not a market. It is a political community.
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.
In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.
Emerging markets are hugely important.
I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in providing public goods, whether it's education, health care, or other things, and two, supervising countercyclical policy - stimulus, whether it's monetary, fiscal, or otherwise.
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