Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn’t be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it. But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state, and whom does it serve? Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
Reagan’s legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
Thanks to globalization and the technology revolution, the nature of work, the distribution of the rewards from that work, and maybe even the economic cycle itself are being transformed. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
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. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice’s oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the ‘bad’ crony capitalists from the ‘good’ innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small ‘l’ liberalism. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
