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Here's a thread for your approval that shows how the world saw Chrystia Freeland economic opinion before she was an official 'liberal (say with a sneer)
Looking at you #CPC and all the conservative activist talking heads at the American owned Postmedia and G&M
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Looking at you #CPC and all the conservative activist talking heads at the American owned Postmedia and G&M
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She, along w/ Trudeau, are being attacked at every conceivable level. From the misogynistic, especially the misogynistic, to "She's has no Bay Street experience." Political bullshit, all of it.
I wonder if the struggling AB O&G worker knows, they're suffering b/c of Bay St.
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I wonder if the struggling AB O&G worker knows, they're suffering b/c of Bay St.
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The National Post thought she was great, before she was a 'liberal'
"Since the late â80s, successive revolutions political, economic and technological have completely changed how capital is created. Globalization has ensured that the change is pandemic" https://nationalpost.com/afterword/book-review-plutocrats-by-chrystia-freeland
"Since the late â80s, successive revolutions political, economic and technological have completely changed how capital is created. Globalization has ensured that the change is pandemic" https://nationalpost.com/afterword/book-review-plutocrats-by-chrystia-freeland
"These mega-rich...proclaim free market values yet lobby ...successfully to bend markets in their favour, devastating the traditional middle classes and dislocating social mobility....they're destroying the very things that gave birth to so many of them âto all our detriment."
For the socialist:
"Read it knowing what famous plutocrat Andrew Carnegie knew...âcapitalists, required employers to drive the hardest possible bargain with workers.â This conflict, between the workers producing the wealth and the Carnegies taking it" https://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/02/11/plutocrats-an-informative-and-frustrating-book/
"Read it knowing what famous plutocrat Andrew Carnegie knew...âcapitalists, required employers to drive the hardest possible bargain with workers.â This conflict, between the workers producing the wealth and the Carnegies taking it" https://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/02/11/plutocrats-an-informative-and-frustrating-book/
The recovering banker: Trump is a fan boy
"Freelandâs prose strengthens when she describes the rise of the Russian oligarchs over the last 20 years, previously profiled in her book Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution. " https://www.bankers-anonymous.com/book/book-review-plutocrats-the-rise-of-the-new-global-super-rich-and-the-fall-of-everyone-else/
"Freelandâs prose strengthens when she describes the rise of the Russian oligarchs over the last 20 years, previously profiled in her book Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution. " https://www.bankers-anonymous.com/book/book-review-plutocrats-the-rise-of-the-new-global-super-rich-and-the-fall-of-everyone-else/
For the boneheads who still think you've got a chance to join this club:
"And he said to me, 'You know what? They only had $10 million saved. How are they going to live on that?' I kid you not, he was really worried about them." https://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162799512/a-startling-gap-between-us-and-them-in-plutocrats
"And he said to me, 'You know what? They only had $10 million saved. How are they going to live on that?' I kid you not, he was really worried about them." https://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162799512/a-startling-gap-between-us-and-them-in-plutocrats
Even a confused American idolizer at the G &M agrees.
"If developed economies aren't financially fair, and they're getting less fair, what are the implications? Why play rigged games, as opposed to, say, trying to get your loot while the looting is good?" https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/plutocrats-a-look-at-the-income-gap-between-the-super-rich-and-the-rest-of-us/article4623261/
"If developed economies aren't financially fair, and they're getting less fair, what are the implications? Why play rigged games, as opposed to, say, trying to get your loot while the looting is good?" https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/plutocrats-a-look-at-the-income-gap-between-the-super-rich-and-the-rest-of-us/article4623261/
Personally I'm looking forward to this new power on the Canadian scene. She just might hand not only our wealth back to us, but she just might free us all of the yoke Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher put around our collective necks.
