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This is a made up figure from the movie The Big Short, it isn't an actual figure, lmao.
Also, this is about Australia.
No, the number comes from a macroeconomics text book written by Gregory Mankiw and its based on research by Harvey Brennan studying the correlation since the 1950s.
You are right it that economics is all fake and made up. However there is a nonzero number of deaths and misery we can attribute to every person being miserable and stressed
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