Gloomy Davos Economists (VIDEO)
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I wish they were gloomy enough to close down the WTO and cancel all free trade agreeements.
GLOBALIZATION IS JUST THE SPREADING THE GREED OF CAPITALISM THROUGHOUT AN OVERPOPULATED WORLD.
The only winnners are the new citizens of the world, MULTI NATIONAL CORPORATIONS.
All of them courtiers, telling the hand that feeds them what they want to hear. 1997 anyone?
Maybe Alan Greedspan could hold them all captive, with tales of the great supply side.
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