The Finance Curse

A new framework for understanding the world, and a new book by Nicholas Shaxson

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Systemic risk and volatility

Research shows that a high credit to GDP ratio increases the risk of financial crisis, which ordinarily are much more severe in terms of the resulting recessions than usual business cycles are.

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