Lionel Shriver Quotes

The financial industry may not be synonymous with economics, but it does control a large enough sector of the global economy to sink us all, as was unnervingly demonstrated in 2008.

Lionel Shriver

• May
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• Financial

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• The financial industry may not be synonymous with economics, but it does control a large enough sector of the global economy to sink us all, as was unnervingly demonstrated in 2008.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • May
  • Control
  • Financial