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The Days Are Over When Technology Can Be Advanced In Laboratories By Individual Scientists Alone. Now You Need An Army Of Lawyers To Negotiate The Hazardous Terrain Of Interlocking Patents. Unless We Find A Solution To The Problem Of Interlocking Patents, The Patent System May Actually Impede The Very Innovation It Was Designed To Encourage.

Democracy And Markets Are Both Fundamental Building Blocks For A Decent Society. But They Clash At A Fundamental Level. We Need To Balance Them.

Since The 1980s, We Have Given The Rich A Bigger Slice Of Our Pie In The Belief That They Would Create More Wealth, Making The Pie Bigger Than Otherwise Possible In The Long Run. The Rich Got The Bigger Slice Of The Pie All Right, But They Have Actually Reduced The Pace At Which The Pie Is Growing.

Gore Vidal, The American Writer, Once Described The American Economic System As 'free Enterprise For The Poor And Socialism For The Rich'. Macroeconomic Policy On The Global Scale Is A Bit Like That. It Is Keynesianism For The Rich Countries And Monetarism For The Poor.

History Is On The Side Of The Regulators.