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Chrystia Freeland
Canadian
Musician
Born:
Aug 2
,
1968
Good
Government
People
Think
World
You
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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
Silence
World
Criticism
Leader
First
Admired
Seek
Abroad
Outside
Outside World
Like
Most
Least
Praised
Source
Authoritarian
Often
Repressive
Cannot
Even
It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
Chrystia Freeland
Best
Good
Strong
Defence
Offence
Playing
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
One Thing
Entirely
Division
Acceptable
Inequality
Permanent
Different
Much
Less
Different Thing
Income
Income Inequality
Thing
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
Class
People
Wealth
Entitlement
Sense
Think
Top
Kind
Both
Bubble
Powerful
For The People
Makes
Understand
Very
Middle
Middle Class
Which
Hard
The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.
Chrystia Freeland
Positive
Democracy
Positive Results
Point
Results
Deliver
Main
Majority
This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.
Chrystia Freeland
Needs
People
Poverty
Hundreds
Out
See
Lifting
Globalization
Left
Up
Millions
Millions Of People
A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.
Chrystia Freeland
Me
You
Sense
Society
Citizenship
About
Having
More
Troubles
Polarized
Stop
Really
Thing
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
War
Music
Relationship
Conversation
Power
Bipolar
Cold
Cold War
Changing
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Mood
East
About
Determines
New
Most
Equation
How
Shift
West
China
Moving
Century
In a globalized economy, jobs no longer need a passport, but workers do.
Chrystia Freeland
Jobs
Longer
Economy
Passport
Workers
Need
Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.
Chrystia Freeland
Slow
Changes
Dramatic
Impact
Ultimate
Gradual
Quite
Which
Notice
Hard
Even
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
Positive
You
Think
Sliced
About
Uncomfortable
Feel
Feels
Pie
Talk
Forbes
Make
Talking
Inequality
How
Optimistic
Than
List
Bigger
Us
Less
Even
Income
Income Inequality
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
Capitalism
World
Classes
Postwar
High-Tech
Performed
Version
Western
Very
Western World
Middle
Different
Century
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
Wealth
Degree
First
Our
Consists
Rise
New
Economy
Globally
Led
Notable
Connected
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
Best
Innovation
Value
Become
Faster
Increases
Possible
Rate
More
Shareholders
Environment
Global
Global Environment
Attracting
Bigger
CEO
Companies
Ever
Technological
Competitive
Disruptive
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
Innovation
Competition
Pay
Increasing
Changing
Scale
About
Prevalence
Major
Executive
Overly
Cultural
Cozy
Norms
Roles
Boards
Reasons
Many
Including
Played
Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.
Chrystia Freeland
Systems
City
Excite
Know
Most
Friends
Fancy
Farmers
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
Government
Great
Creative
Destruction
Society
Has-Been
Emerged
Triumphant
Triumphs
Over
How
Smoothly
Been
American
Forgotten
Century
American Society
Communities
Farmers
Largely
Early
I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.
Chrystia Freeland
Myself
History
Speak
Language
College
Nation
Think
Studied
Literature
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
Legal
Experience
Mother
Parents
Lawyer
Other
Late
Back
States
Ukraine
Ukrainian
Drawing
Independent
Russia
Along
Executive
She
Became
Canada
Officer
Soviet
Moved
Former
Republics
Helped
Homeland
Found
Foundation
Served
Her
Thirteen
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
Family
Mother
Before
Sister
Thanks
Older
Able
Born
Had
Between
Were
Camp
Western
Germany
Canada
Get
Refugee
Grandfather
Who
Wars
Older Sister
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
Jews
Worse
Say
Muslims
Atheists
Than
Canada
Going
Christians
One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.
Chrystia Freeland
Innovation
Better
One Thing
Open
Canada
America
Gets
Being
Right
Thing
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
You
Hurt
People
Poverty
Holding
Progressives
Jobs
About
Guys
Bottom
Like
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Talk
Well
However
Been
Lot
Quite
Middle
Holding On
Really
Should
Who
Actually
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
Technology
World
Understanding
Revolution
Think
Way
Obama
Impact
Spirals
Having
Both
Economists
Sophisticated
Economy
Globalization
Him
Around
Very
Creating
World Economy
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
Terrorism
Natural
Partner
Extremism
East
Counter
Ally
Particularly
Always
Israel
Close
Canada
Middle
Middle East
Works
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
Day
Complicated
Sometimes
Care
Kids
Given
More
Taking
Trade
Than
Any
Going
Who
Agreement
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