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the financial sector's aim

[...] As Michael Hudson writes, 'the financial sector's aim is not to minimize the cost of roads, electric power, transportation, water or education, but to maximize what can be charged as monopoly rent.'

—p.1 The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers Credit Power (1) by Ann Pettifor
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bring global capital back onshore

To bring global capital back onshore would be transformational of the global monetary order. Only then could we hope to restore stability, prosperity and social justice to a polarised and dangerously unequal world. Only then could we hope to manage the challenge of climate change.

—p.xix Preface (vii) by Ann Pettifor
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rentiers

However, business is better than usual for rentiers

—p.xi Preface (vii) by Ann Pettifor
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