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In the handlers, as he spent cities. Good evening everybody will get started welcome to the American Enterprise institute. And director of social cultural and constitutional studies. Ai. It is my great pleasure tonight talking you to discussion of important new book by my good friend and colleague, michael read michael is the director of economic studies. Ai is a widely published scholar labor economic Public Finance and many other areas in his new book is an exceptionally clear and broad overview of the state of an American Economic life. The actual conditions we face, the trends, over recent decades and others relate to some of the dark stories that we hear in our politics about the conditions that americans are experiencing also where profits are. Any sort of saved things that are much better than the mode of our politics and the critics of the market economy would sometimes suggest that we do face risks in the navy that mood and those critics, are the among the most important of th
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