The Fed chair who served under five US presidents was more practical and less ideological than his detractors claimed.
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After 2008, tougher rules promised safer banking. Instead, they helped big lenders grow stronger, while choice on the high street shrank.
The 2008 financial crisis set in train many of the issues the world still struggles with today.
The US economy has always been a mix of government regulation and market forces. The balance between those has shifted over time, but never has one side or the other been substantively removed.
Over the past 15 years, the world has seen a financial crisis, the rise of populist politics and a fracturing of the world economic order. Sounds all a bit pre-WWII, right?
Austerity Britain has translated into worse lives for many people: tougher working conditions, minimal statutory services and a retraction of the local state at a time when people need it.
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