Canadian - Musician | August 2, 1968 -
It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
Chrystia Freeland
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Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered.
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When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.
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Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.
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Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider privatization in Russia; rent-seeking in regulated industries in India and Mexico.
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The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.
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Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.
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Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.
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Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.
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Sometimes who is going to be taking care of all of my kids on any given day is more complicated than any trade agreement.
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If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.
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The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.
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