Chrystia Freeland

One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

— Chrystia Freeland

Corporations are not employment agencies, and judging them by that metric is a mistake.

— Chrystia Freeland

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

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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…

— Chrystia Freeland

A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.

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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

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

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One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.

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Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but…

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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…

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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…

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When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of…

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It's public knowledge that there have been efforts - as U.S. intelligence sources have said - by Russia to destabilize the U.S.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.

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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…

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“I’ve never understood in my life why all these dictators, when they stole, why didn’t they just steal a billion and spend…

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I lived in Moscow for four years and really, really enjoyed it, and I have a really deep love for the Russian…

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Companies and capital operate internationally, often beyond the economic reach of any particular nation-state. People are pretty global, too, living lives that…

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Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to…

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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,…

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A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the 'bad' crony capitalists from the 'good' innovative entrepreneurs is…

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Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to…

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Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s -…

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If you've developed an ideology that what's good for you personally also happens to be good for everyone else, that's quite wonderful…

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Motherhood may be a 'killer' when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that…

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Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and…

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Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it - there is a reason economists talk about 'the curse…

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The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached…

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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…

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TED is certainly a gathering of an incredibly eclectic, incredibly interesting community, but it's also an elite community - at least an…

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I see real opportunities for us to have stronger, closer collaboration between the three North American partners and seize on opportunities to…

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“Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and…

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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…

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Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the…

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Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay -…

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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…

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Thanks to globalization and the technology revolution, the nature of work, the distribution of the rewards from that work, and maybe even…

— Chrystia Freeland