It’s said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions…But does that apply to the leaders of powerful countries? What if programs that were intended to help Americans – things like pensions, healthcare, and subsidized housing were hurting us instead? Dambisa Moyo is an economist and author of the new book: “How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly — and the Stark Choices ahead.”
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