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“Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the re…” — Sharan Burrow

Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are not going to see the kind of stability or the capacity to drive genuine, income-led growth as opposed to debt-fuelled, speculative behaviour.
Sharan Burrow
Sharan Burrow Activist • Welsh
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