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Chrystia Freeland
Chrystia Freeland
Canadian Musician
Born: Aug 2, 1968
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The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad. Chrystia Freeland
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It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence. Chrystia Freeland
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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. Chrystia Freeland
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I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class. Chrystia Freeland
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The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority. Chrystia Freeland
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This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that. Chrystia Freeland
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A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship. Chrystia Freeland
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Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else. Chrystia Freeland
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In a globalized economy, jobs no longer need a passport, but workers do. Chrystia Freeland
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Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic. Chrystia Freeland
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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. Chrystia Freeland
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The high-tech, globalized capitalism of the 21st century is very different from the postwar version of capitalism that performed so magnificently for the middle classes of the Western world. Chrystia Freeland
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Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth. Chrystia Freeland
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As companies become bigger, the global environment more competitive, and the rate of disruptive technological innovation ever faster, the value to shareholders of attracting the best possible CEO increases correspondingly. Chrystia Freeland
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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. Chrystia Freeland
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Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends. Chrystia Freeland
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One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the creative destruction of the early 20th century and emerged triumphant when it was over. Chrystia Freeland
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I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college. Chrystia Freeland
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My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found. Chrystia Freeland
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My mother was born in a refugee camp in Germany before the family immigrated to western Canada. They were able to get visas thanks to my grandfather's older sister, who had immigrated between the wars. Chrystia Freeland
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We in Canada are not going to say Muslims are worse than Christians or are worse than Jews or are worse than atheists. Chrystia Freeland
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One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that. Chrystia Freeland
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The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually. Chrystia Freeland
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I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals. Chrystia Freeland
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When Canada works to counter extremism and terrorism, particularly in the Middle East, Israel is always a natural partner and a close ally. Chrystia Freeland
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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. Chrystia Freeland
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