Robert Johnson Says America’s Income Inequality Calls Nation Into Question

Out of the box thinking from a finance legend
Valentin Schmid
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On the face of it, Robert Johnson’s career looks like the stereotypical case of somebody who has made it in finance.

Having been educated at the country’s elite schools of Harvard and MIT, having worked as a managing director at George Soros’s Quantum Fund in the 1990s, and having held a prominent role in Washington, his résumé could not be more established.

However, Johnson never took his achievements for granted and always kept pushing further, looking for the real reasons behind the facades of modern finance and politics. 

As a result, he has produced an Oscar-winning documentary exposing torture practices within the U.S. military (”Taxi to the Dark Side“). He also founded and heads the nonprofit organization Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), with which he managed to step outside the box of partisan politics and economic theory to find some pragmatic solutions for our future problems.

Epoch Times spoke to Johnson about China’s new role in the world as well as domestic challenges and America’s income inequality. Expect the unexpected.   

Robert Johnson, president of the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET).
Robert Johnson, president of the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET).
Valentin Schmid
Valentin Schmid
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Valentin Schmid is a former business editor for the Epoch Times. His areas of expertise include global macroeconomic trends and financial markets, China, and Bitcoin. Before joining the paper in 2012, he worked as a portfolio manager for BNP Paribas in Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.
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