Greg Ip
Greg Ip
Greg Ipis a journalist. In 1996, Ip became a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Eight years later joined the Economist. He was the U.S. Economics editor of The Economist until 2015, when he returned to the Wall Street Journal as chief economics commentator. Ip is a graduate of Carleton University...
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We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.
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In the '70s, there were economists who argued that seat belts were causing people to drive faster and kill more pedestrians. But after 15 or 20 years of research, we can now conclude that's actually not true. Seat belts, on net, do make people safer. So, on an evidence-based process, we should have people wear seat belts.