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Any economist who appears to question the benefits of trade openness risks banishment, so let me be clear: I do not question the standard version of the gains-from-trade theory, but the extravagant, unsubstantiated claims made about the consequences of openness.

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She had heard him at the Library of Congress a few weeks before at this extravagant black-tie affair.

So he said that this principle of nature, consonance: "This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, lest I should be accounted an extravagant freak ... " That's what we all have to watch out for, (Laughter) especially at this meeting.

I'm sitting there, I got new earbuds, old Walkman, I realize this is just the kind of extravagance I used to take for granted even when I was extravagant.

I dreamt I'd become a writer of songs, that I would sing those songs to vast numbers of people all over the world, that I would be paid extravagant amounts of money, that I'd become famous, that I'd marry a beautiful woman, have children, raise a family, buy a big house in the country, keep dogs, grow wine, have rooms full of Grammy Awards, platinum discs, and what have you.

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