Mark Carney has Canada’s Conservatives running scared
Mark Carney has Canada’s Conservatives running scared
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I know he's an influential guy, but I don't know if I want a banker as the leader of my country.
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If a banker is what it takes to keep an under-educated career politician who has literally never had an actual job in his life...I'll happily take it.
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Also yes. 😂
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Yeah. Can't argue with you there...
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You must be referring to Patronage Poilievre. He's definitely got some small PP energy for sure.
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If we're entering a terrifying economic time where our biggest trading partner is doing crazy shit, a banker with Carney's record kind of appeals.
Given current economic arrangements... I dunno, I don't think a radical transformer can win, I don't want crazy populist bullshit (Left or Right) I just want someone who has basically progressive values (social/wealth inequality, climate change etc) who will keep my friends employed. I'll be fine regardless but my friends are starting families and while the largest economy on Earth is run by an unrestrained lunatic, I'd like some safety for them, as those are some cute kids.
Same idea as portfolio diversification. When I have time and few crises, yeah, some sexy stocksare fun. But the closer we get to crunch time, the more we move to safe assets.
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Bizarrely enough, he's actually probably less in favour of slashing everything than Freeland and obviously Poilievre... if his rhetoric and past actions are indicative. Yes, heads of banks can often do evil, but some have still spoken up about inequality in recent years because they're more aware of what's happening in markets than a lot of economists are. (Here's a kind of shocking video by an economist and public educator who went to the private sector for a while after doing his Master's at Oxford discussing why, for those interested.)*
If Carney is at least somewhat on our side, we would at least stave off another fascist or fascist-supporting government in the world.
*TLDW: The vid happens to be about why highly ranked economists often get predictions wrong. One of the reasons he goes into is private sector money drawing promising students away from universities unless they're wealthy enough not to need the money. Wealthy PhD students are typically too out of touch to realize the models they use leave out crucial data on inequality.
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Yes.
That said he doesn't sound like the typical spreadsheet brain to me from the interviews I've seen.
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Maybe I'm judging him a little too quickly. I sure hope you're right. I don't want any more austerity measures for economy's sake. I want to start taxing the richest Canadians who have been using their near monopoly status to exploit working class Canadians to increase their fortune without any opposition.
I'm just tired of not having accessible public medical care anymore and underfunded schools where teachers are quitting because it's become too difficult due to lack of resources and cuts. Y'know?
Plus there's the whole real estate business that's basically keeping the Canadian economy afloat and causing property prices and rent to surge beyond what the average person can afford even with a good paying job.
Those are my concerns and I don't feel the Liberal party has addressed any of those and applied pressure or enabled provincial governments to address these things for the past decade.
Anyway. I really hope he's how you say he is.
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He's smart as hell, and knows and respects the boundaries between politics and the BoC.
Don't forget he ran the Bank of England under Boris Johnson, and although he didn't personally agree with Brexit he managed to drag the UK through it relatively unscathed (he left in 2020).
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especially a literal globalist who advocates for a global uni-currency. That's not conspiracy shit, that's his published papers
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He has always been my pick, even before he entered the leadership race.
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The more I read about his policies and views, the more I like him. He's way better than any other option I've seen for the liberals.
Another thing he has going for him is that he did not go against electoral reform. Nathaniel Erskine-Smith’s endorsement is the cherry on top for me.
Yeah but so was Trudeau.
Honestly I feel like Trudeau was honestly a good guy with good values and good ideas but he somehow got pushed into the Liberal party mold and was forced to toe the party line even if he was the leader. Like there are outside forces that made him change his plans.
That might just be a hunch though.
Have you seen any actual policy proposals? Did you tease out anything about attitude towards labour?
No actual policy proposals, just going off his past record. I don't think he has a published plan at all yet, he did recently write a book about his views.
He supported occupy wall street which says a lot to me. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/bank-of-canada-head-calls-occupy-protests-entirely-constructive/article4182646/
And he's hard core pro climate, where he thinks it makes financial sense too. https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-mark-carney-is-a-climate-zealot-who-wont-back-off-trudeau-climate-agenda
The views section here is pretty good too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney
The only thing I'm scared of, is the Michael Ignatieff effect. The liberals have tried this one before. Michael Ignatieff is on a plane that is well beyond any of our comprehension. Which works really well in academia, but not so well when it comes to trying to deal with the common world and to level with the common man.
This guy sure as shit ain't a dummy, and I've actually had the pleasure of being at lectures with him, and buddy is pretty gosh darn smart. We'd be a better nation with him leading us for a little while. Problem is, half the population are wearing raccoon hats and railing ivermectin, and cheering over transport truck horns from parking lot encampments in the middle of nowhere. The other half gets their education solely from Facebook. We are still pretty fucked, me be thinking. He's polling well as a liberal, but the polls at the macro level are still looking like a clear CON blood bath across the country.