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This surprising quotation, along with others a far from main steam American views (See {623830} ) assured her election defeat.


Foreign trade creates jobs and eliminates jobs. The people who lost jobs as the result of increased foreign trade are readily identified while the job beneficiaries may never know the reason. So it is a hard political sell even though most of the economic studies have showed that more jobs of more value are created by trade than lost. However, the losers are generally blue collar workers while the beneficiaries are generally white collar and knowledge workers. So there is a socioeconomic class differentiation in the trade issue.


This is a classic illustration of a quotation illustrating the problem that political discussions have with the issue of causality. Conrad is absolutely correct in stating that investment and innovation as the direct cause for most productivity. However, without the demand created by consumption (or the prospect of it) there will be little capital and effort at innovation. There is a causal chain and different ideological proponents argue for their preferred link in the chain tending to ignore the other links. Many liberals tout increasing consumption and pay little attention to the investment and innovation—an error of the opposite of Conrad’s.


During the revolution against apartheid, a number of communist organizations allied themselves with the ANC against the White minority regime. A few of the communist leaders rose and became officials of the ANC. The vast majority of the ANC supported private enterprise with the kind of socialist aspects that were then typical of the Scandinavian countries, Germany and even France. Mandela, before the successful ousting of the Apartheid held a number of communist ideas and principles as the “capitalists” were making money from the apartheid system and there would support the status quo, However, he had a change of heart and mind regarding private enterprise after the successful effort to end white minority rule. He was good to his word, and even after he retired, the ANC and the government maintained pro private enterprise policies.


Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron
  • Born: December 21, 1977
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Politician & President

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician who has been serving as the president of France and ex officio co-prince of Andorra since 14 May 2017.