Jeremy Grantham
speaker
906 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Jeremy Grantham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Obviously, in the wartime, you pull together and the social contract, the feeling that you owe something to the rest of society was much stronger than it is today.
Number two was lucky.
In the end, it's better to have a war and have everyone pull their weight and work together than it is the other.
Civil wars are the worst of all kinds.
No, it can't.
So it needs a government that is prepared to pull up Bernie Sanders to say, yeah, we're going to have to, at least in a gentle and long-term way, shift the tax structure in favour of a slightly steeper curve.
And help the poor.
It's pretty simple.
And you have a kind of steepness in every society.
That's what they do.
Every developed country in the world taxes the rich and helps the poor, don't they?
It's a question of degree.
We did much more helping the poor and taxing the rich in the 1950s and 60s and 40s than we do today.
And somewhere between that level and the current level might be more than enough.
If we just started...
to adopt the policy of 1935 to 75, where the bottom quarter get a half percent a year richer than the average, and the top dogs get half a percent less each year than the average.
That sounds pretty unthreatening.
I think we would ease our way over several decades into a better place.
Oh God, I wish I was 33.
It's such an exciting time.
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