Epstein Secrets

art new book, "The Price of Inequality," by Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton. It's a searing read. "We are paying a high price for our inequality — an economic system that is less stable and less efficient, with less growth,

ouncil of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton. It's a searing read. "We are paying a high pric

It's a searing read. "We are paying a high price for our inequality — an economic system that is less stable and less efficient, with less growth," Stiglitz warns. EFTA00619418 The problem is not that the rich are venal or immoral, and I buy into the Chinese mantra of the reform era: "To get rich is g

sexual favors. Epstein was different from most sexual abuse sus- pects; he was tar more pow- erful. lie counted among his friends former President Bill Clinton. Donald Trump and Prince Andrew, along with some of the most prominent legal, scientific and business minds in the country. When detectives star

sely private." The media frenzy did not begin in full until a decade later. In Sep- tember 2002, Epstein was flung into the limelight when he flew Clinton and actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on his private jet. Suddenly everyone wanted to know who Epstein was. New York magazine and V

ttention span, he woukl notice a few things. The CI3O, using that 2015 date, estimated the full cost at $500 bil- lion. Why a discrepancy with ME Stiglitz and Ms. Bilmes? The CBO didn't include the lifetime health care and disability payments for returning veterans, replacement of military hardware

the defining differences between him and Hillary Clinton. And even among those in Congress there was disa

ussed than the ongoing costs of the war are the opportunity costs -- the many things we might have spent that money on instead. In 2010, Bilmes and Stiglitz wrote that not only was their $3 trillion estimate of the war's cost too low, but so was their estimation of the opportunity costs: The Iraq war di