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High profile names are simply there to get people to attend them and provide attendees an opportunity to gain some insight/ask questions.

The idea that all it takes is $300k to change monetary policy in the US is absolutely nutty.



Thank you for responding. Yeah, I think thats fair, though I didnt understand the other poster to be saying they were changing policy, more that speakers were charging for knowledge/acess, which is a different thing.


> The idea that all it takes is $300k to change monetary policy in the US is absolutely nutty.

The position that she only gave one speech and it was in direct exchange for a huge change in monetary policy is a strawman.




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