Carmen Reinhart

Harvard University

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Economics Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; co-author of This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

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“It wasn’t very long ago that the dread hovering over global financial markets was that things were getting too calm.”

Wild Swings in Global Markets Have Led to Fears of a Worldwide Slowdown

“It wasn’t very long ago that the dread hovering over global financial markets was that things were getting too calm.”

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