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perfect correlation of consumption across countries
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because if we get rid of the idiosyncratic risks,
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then all that's left is planet-wide risks.
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If we had perfect financial markets--
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and this is intuitive--
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and I don't know how obvious this is, it's obvious to me,
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but it's an intuitive point of great importance--
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nobody would suffer alone.
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Anytime there's a risk that hits one person or one country
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the financial markets would spread it out over everybody
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and it gets very small.
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What's left?