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Stopping The 'Brain Drain' Of The U.S. Economy

NPR - All Things Considered

February 5, 2012

Economist Paul Kedrosky with the Kauffman Foundation says elite schools sending a bigger share of their graduates into finance and consulting is not new; they've been doing it for at least two decades. Kedrosky tells NPR's Guy Raz that what's different now is that those students have essentially used their talents to grow the financial sector in ways that are unhealthy for the overall economy. "It's grown as a proportion of the economy in a way that we haven't seen since the years leading up to the Great Depression," Kedrosky says.

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