As the title says, you NEED to go read this guy’s book if you were ever unsure about who he is as a person and if he is progressive. I started reading this yesterday and am almost a third of the way through already. The way he explains markets and economics and how they can be utilized to fight climate change and our biggest issues is fascinating.
So far I can see that this man is legit and he wants to see Canada leading the world economically and morally. We have a golden opportunity here and any fiscal conservative should see this guy as the number one guy for the job. We had our time with Trudeau laying the foundation for a lot of social justice for the next quarter century, and now Carney is here to focus more on the economy and scale it to make us a global super power. Never before have I found economics so interesting and this book of his is really opening my eyes about the history and functions of markets.
Ok, off I go to continue!
He was governor of the BoE during Brexit… There really isn’t much you can do as a governor of the national bank in such stupidity. And Canada can absolutely be a super power, our landmass, resources and technical know-how can allow us to prosper and lead on the global stage. Canada is a great example of a country of the future, where we don’t rely on wars to settle differences. Carney supports childcare, dental care, boosting the GIS for seniors, pharma care, and everything the liberals did under trudeau minus the consumer carbon tax. And he’s replacing it.
Canada doesn’t need nuclear weapons, does Iraq ring a bell to you how the USA straight up invaded and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people because of “rumors” of WMDs? And the weakest Intel? That kind of talk can gtfo
The lesson of Iraq is not develop no nukes or the USA might invade you. The lesson of Iraq is that even if you definitely don’t have any WMDs the US might lie about it anyways and justify invading you with the lie.
That being said, I think there’s still an argument not to do proliferation even if it would be easier to.
This seems completely uncritical of Carney and Canada for that matter. The future isn’t going to be lead without force because a middle power elects a prime minister with some good ideas about markets.
We don’t need to rely on wars? We rely on exploitation even without it- ask any country where our mining firms operate with lax regulation. Hell, we’ve participated in “coalitions of the willing” in invasions and aerial bombings for corporate giants too. Most of this country is content to think the first Nations just decided to give us the land.
I’m happy to vote for more years of basically Trudeau lite and I have no illusions about it.
Exactly! We can all see the lesser of two evils, but why lie to ourselves about the reality of the situation just to make our vote feel better? Glorifying Carney and the libs only serves to make the NDP seem even less likely to win if we just pretend that Carney will save the markets AND the planet, AND Canada as a country….Maybe let’s just be objective about who he is and what our country stands for. There’s a reason we’re seen as the US’s little brother and it’s not completely unwarranted.
It’s kind of interesting he hasn’t paid for that in any way, as far as I can tell. In a different election you might see people painting him as a supporter or at least an enabler of it.
That would be so fucking whack since the governor of a national bank is apolitical. They do not and should not comment on political matters and only focus on tuning the countries fiscal mechanisms in response to political decisions. That’s why Pierre yapping about “firing” the governor of our bank is a big no no for me. The financial levers of your country should never be politicised or influences by politics because that how you get Zimbabwe dollars.
Governor of a national bank is absolutely not apolitical. Stephen Harper or the British Conservatives weren’t going to appoint a Marxian economist to the position no matter what kind of resume they might have. Their appointees are going to be politically copacetic.
Buddy, all I’m saying is that a governor of a national bank SHOULDNT be influenced by politicians. It’s not that deep
And what I’m saying is that the governor is a politician. Economics isn’t a science like physics is a science. Their decisions are going to be coloured by their ideology.
The governor of a national bank is simply not a politician… They are appointed by a politician, yes. But they aren’t voted in… And to say that economics isn’t a science is… Fucking bold buddy. Gotta lay off the fent and brocasts
Do politicians only exist in democratic states, then? A governor of a national bank is absolutely making political decisions. They are a politician.
What I said was, economics isn’t a science like physics is a science. It is a social science. Economists like to develop very complicated mathematical models to mask that fact, but the foundations those models are based on aren’t natural laws like a physicist might work with. They are based on ideological assumptions.
Uh huh.
Holy fuck man go home, read something other than Instagram comments on podcasts. The governor of a nation bank does not need to make decisions based on politics. They do not cut or raise interest rates due to politics nor should they. Look at the United States chair of the federal reserve, he won’t cut rates because trump asked him to, and no politician should interfere with that.
Fent bot 9000 engage engines and gtfo of here
Yeah, a lot about political discourse is fucking whack. It has been especially bad lately, although TBH there wasn’t a period in history where it was great.
I mean, sure we “can”, just like many others can like Argentina or Norway… but this superpower thing is a bit tired. Let’s just worry about not being pushed around instead of aiming for pushing others around - because that’s what being a superpower means, really.