Comments by "Foxtail" (@tellingfoxtales) on "Financial Times" channel.

  1. France and the UK are so similar yet so different, very much siblings.
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  2. The inevitable result of socialism.
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  3. I'm voting Lib Dems because a heartless conservative government or a mindless labour government doesn't really appeal to me.
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  4. Protectionism is for the weak and uncompetitive.
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  5. It's very easy for middle class English speakers to complain pollution infringes on their rights when millions still cook with charcoal in slums, not out of choice, but by economic necessity.
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  6. The amount of hysteria is astounding, people opposed to immigration should focus on improving themselves and develop valuable skills.
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  7. Brazil needs to do away with it's bloated public sector.
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  8. The UK is the fastest decarbonising advanced economy, we are and will be at the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution.
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  9. With the fall of the US from global dominance, hopefully other nations will pick up the slack and it'll open opportunities for newcomers.
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  10. And once upon a time horses were the main form of travel, times change, and oil is the horse.
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  11. I don't discriminate against people based on their religious beliefs. Farron has common sense, unlike Labour, but he also doesn't seem as cold and disconnected as the Tories. I am voting Lib Dem, and I am as opposed to Tories as I am to Labour.
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  12. Rise Venezuela, and dismantle an oppressive state, in favour of individual liberty.
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  13. Look at the Japanese economy and then the Russian economy, the real loser is quite obvious.
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  14. Great content.
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  15. If you did as much good for the world as you did complaining then maybe you would achieve something with your life.
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  16. People who say 'our country' generally don't have any achievements of their own. If a migrant is smarter, more skilled, and just generally better than you, then yes, I'll hire them over you. But also yes, I don't think migrants should receive benefits.
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  17. Russia will collapse.
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  18. And this is why globalists will win. As a westerner living in the digital age, I see this as an opportunity rather than a threat.
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  19. And VPNs are just as necessary in the west, do no trust your government.
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  20. Bearing in mind these are financial times readers.
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  21. I don't invest in authoritarian regimes.
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  22. Global trade and automation are both inevitable, keep up or lose your place, we go to a competitive and incredible future.
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  23. Labour safe seat, my vote is just a number.
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  24. Just because someone personally doesn't approve of homosexuality doesn't make them a homophobe. I'm bisexual, some of my friends are muslims who consider homosexuality a sin, that doesn't get between our friendship. Labour's policies are almost universally anti-business, they are toxic. I like many of their civil and foreign policies, but I can't get behind anti-business socialists.
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  25. Yes, and this situation is still better than what is going on in Venezuela right now, so the positon doesn't really hold water.
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  26. Italy simply does not have the fiscal stability for increased spending, they're looking to bankrupt themselves because they feel they 'deserve' a higher standard of living than their work warrants.
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  27. I live in the centre of Nottingham, and if you'd asked me I would have said it was a harmonious multi-cultural hub, until recent news report about racial abuse and young girls being beaten to death started to shift my view on my city.
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  28. Communism dies by itself, there's really no need to worry. Maintain sanctions against the cuban government, facilitate the free exhange of goods, and simply allow the people to realise where the future lies.
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  29. Would you have preferred a video on famine #communism?
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  30. Then consumers front the cost.
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  31. I hope to see conservatives lose their majority, but labour to lose historically safe seats to conservatives and lib dems, with lib dems regaining some of their former strength. There needs to be an end to complacency in politics, and I'd like to see an exceptionally close race so everyone moderates a little bit.
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  32. Because socialist policies have created perpetual dependence in the working class, because the government covers the basics the private sector has never seen it necessary, creating one system for one group, and one group for another. Although market liberalisation would hurt the very poorest, the rest of the working class would see rising wages, more employment opportunities, and greater consumer choice.
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  33. When Catalonian independence parties win, then the future of the nation will be clear and unstoppable.
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  34. Typical French protectionism, nothing to see here, France is content to keep mass unemployment and anti-competitive policy.
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  35. They'll be DAOs.
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  36. Costa Rica has done pretty good for itself. Chile has done excellently.
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  37. I'm referring to the US as a nation. Most of the most innovative companies in the world are American, but with rising authoritarianism, falling freedoms, and a militant sense of entitlement across the political spectrum, who will remain there? Americans come from the boats, they can get back on them.
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  38. There's no 'reset' until those who benefited at the expense of our species and our planet are held to account, and considering the scale of their crimes, there can be no other fair consequence than the pyre.
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  39. As far as she is concerned, it isn't her problem, the vast majority of people have this thinking, they just don't have the money to actually act on it. Later they talk about people cracking open pipes to fill a bucket and run, same thinking, less money.
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  40. Gold is fairly useful, but the reason it is so valuable is because there's not much of it and it's shiny, as well as not degrading over time. So that was good for most of history but there are so many more ways to exchange value now, and gold isn't a significant one.
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  41. Declining fertility rates, increasing average age, increasing competition in the economy. The same reason pensions are becoming important is the same reason immigration is necessary, the amount of old people is increasing.
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  42. The extent of food waste is decadent and repugnant, but I'm not exactly convinced bugs are the solution.
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  43. Meaningless hysteria.
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  44. XBT is a single cryptocurrency, a market which will rapidly replace fiat as the go to means of exchanging value.
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  45. Stop victimising yourself, keep up with the future or be made redundant by machines.
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  46. Except politicians are human beings and thus are allowed to have opinions on things. Farron didn't talk about homosexuality, the media pestered him about it. Protectionism is harmful to the economy, IA-HDI continues to increase, unemployment is low, and just because you want labour to win doesn't change any of these facts.
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  47. Anyone with sense knows oil is dead. There's some profit to be made in short-term trading, but this is the end, investors need to find a new normal.
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  48. Anyone who fears manual labour job losses has no place in the world of the future, and should consider learning new skills and engaging in self-improvement.
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  49. Ayurveda isn't a science. It is effective, and west medicine has taken alot from it, but the fact is that the methods are completely different, and western medicine is very much different to ayurveda, if you know about the science of biology you would understand that.
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  50. It doesn't need to wait, it needs to actually get out there and work rather than sit in the sun drinking wine for three hours each day.
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  51. You could say the same for the cure for smallpox, but the fact is that more died of the disease than died for the cure. Sometimes sacrifices are necessary, and those sacrifices are usually made by the weak.
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  52. It seems all Norway can do is tax and take oil out of the ground. What is it of value Norway does again?
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  53. Keynesianism doesn't work.
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  54. Gold does not deserve a fraction of the attention it still receives, it is nigh-on obsolete already.
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  55. Traitors to who?
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  56. Well for one the price of crude is rock bottom, likewise in the majority of developed nations coal has been replaced by oil, as new energy sources become more cost-effective, they replace old ones, and the cost and productivity of renewable sources is increasing rapidly (60-80% cost reduction) whilst efficiency gains in oil are marginal.
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  57. I think we need to take into account the productivity gains a diverse workforce brings, and that a female perspective can often provide a competitive advantage but at the same time, it remains true that women take maternity leave and become less effective employees whilst menstruating. There are upsides and downsides to hiring more women, and they must be considered not as activists, but as businesspeople.
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  58. Ultimately brexit will benefit start-ups and services in the UK, but traditional manufacturers will be hurt, and that means the old guard will leave.
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  59. That is the mindset of someone who will stay poor.
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  60. Fertility rate is below replacement in the UK, without immigration we are a dying nation, plain and simple.
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  61. When states try to control their people, their people either leave, or outsmart the government. Government always loses in the long-term.
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  62. The current US policy to NK is punitive and ineffective, strategic diplomacy and deal-making could very easily put too much strain on the regime for it to survive, but instead they just make empty threats, and every one buckles up.
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  63. They teach Keynesianism in schools, a qualification doesn't seem massively importantly.
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  64. Except liberal democracy is by far more the most stable and prosperous system, sorry facts don't suit your authoritarian and violent tendencies.
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  65. Common sense would tell you that historically that doesn't work at all.
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  66. Tyranny of the majority is no replacement for inequality. Any system of collective ownership will require checks and balances, Blockchain technology will have such an application, but 'leaving capitalism behind' is a no-go.
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  67. The market value of their properties is very high, but realistically how many actual properties are owned by dirty foreign money, few. property prices are high because everyone wants to live in their own home, and there are 60million people in the country
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  68.  @sirrathersplendid4825  I'm not sure if it clocked but we're at the tale end of western civilization and the human flood is coming, this is nothing in comparison to what's about to happen, and we'll get it a sight better than those on the continent
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  69. The days are long gone when that would make a difference. The fact is that numbers mean little now, and a single person with a computer can change the world more than millions in the streets.
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  70. I'm not sure what malnourished, tired, and sickly people are going to do to towers of glass with armed police on speed dial.
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  71. All that may be true, but if Italy increases spending, they will go bankrupt and refugees/natives alike will be impoverished as a result, immigrants make no difference to that fact, that is down to Italy as a nation living beyond it's means.
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  72. Labour is little better. Society can only free itself by rejecting politics, which is nothing more than the use of centralised force to impose personal preferences.
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  73. Britain is also home to high-tech companies, just not much meat and potatoes industry.
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  74. No central authority can kill XBT, it is the movement of wealth away from statists into the hands of economising individuals. XBT is the death of the state, enjoy.
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  75. Doge is a ponzi, the only rational investment in crypto is Elrond eGLD
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  76. The only hedge against inflation is something outside the fiat system, yet still looking forward. Polygon MATIC is the best way to be part of the blockchain revolution.
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  77. Your naysaying will make negligible difference to the coming years, and the changes you'll experience.
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  78. You sure like ranting, lucky for every one else it makes absolutely no difference.
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  79. Saudi Arabia is dead, oil will be irrelevant, and soon they'll be back to just being sand people.
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  80. Not bitcoin, blockchain in general. Bitcoin is just the beginning.
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  81. How surprising.
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  82. For as long as meat consumption is as high as it is, changing farming methods will make negligible change, this isn't just a matter of production, it's consumption. People must change.
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  83. Keynesian nonsense.
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  84. In what world can you consider a private company a public utility, you are actively encouraging companies to be unambitious.
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  85. I've always fond VA to be a paradox, the most conservative blue ex-confederate state going, consistently baffling.
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  86. Only blockchain can create truly free markets. Forget stocks, invest in Polygon MATIC and Ankr ANKR to be part of the blockchain revolution.
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  87. End of the days of the dollar.
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  88. Italy is determined to be even less relevant than it now, how the mighty have fallen.
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  89. In a nation of 60 million that seems unlikely.
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  90. @Cromwellian Republican hundreds of thousands of people should be taken seriously, but that doesn't mean they should be capitulated to. Based on the closeness of the Brexit result, and the continued divisions regarding the UK's path the only honest way to proceed is either another vote or a soft Brexit.
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  91. Per capita GDP in China is second world nation at best. It got rich as a nation of sweatshop labourers and that is at core what it remains.
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  92. Cryptocurrency will make reliance on the product (national currency) of national banks collapse, and that will be the end of the free ride for complacent big boy corporation.
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  93.  @rojavabashur6455  there's more to the fourth industrial revolution than just batteries. The UK has some of the best AI, ML, quantum computing, IoT, and blockchain companies in the world. So yes, it will be at the forefront.
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  94.  @rojavabashur6455  where the company is founded is important, but where it is staffed is almost more important, and the UK has deep mind, fetch, river lane, benevolent AI, dark trace, and many multinationals have a strong presence in the UK, with the UK being the fastest to implement quantum computing in business in the world. Spotify is a music streaming company, nothing more.
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  95.  @phillipkalaveras1725  rapid expansion of renewables will power the most important sectors. Progress is inevitable, it is the people who will suffer blackouts. But that's true for everywhere.
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  96. It would hurt the self-respect of Google to sully itself with Apple.
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  97. Sanctions against the government, that is to say do not engage with the cuban government, but do not sanction imports/exports. The cuban government is of course engaged with the economy and would benefit from import/exports, but I'm talking specifically direct engagement at a formal, diplomatic level. Then Zavi, cuba will exhaust it's list of creditors within a few years and will face declining living conditions until a point the young either outthink the cuban state or leave for better pastures.
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  98. The only environmentally friendly investments are blockchain-based energy trading platforms, Wepower WPR, Suncontract SNC, Pylon Network PYLNT, and Redi REDI.
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  99. Great content.
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  100. Some strangely deep themes cropping up in this festive content. Hopefully we'll see something cheerful come Christmas.
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  101. I think my mother succeeded in this regard. She didn't really give me many skills, and that made it hard as a young adult, but she did encourage me to explore and learn about the world, so I find as I am growing up, I'm more adaptable and curious than other people my age, and as a result, more successful.
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  102. Seems swampy.
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  103. Yeah but all 'the people' are doing is using the same old tool, politics, which is becoming increasingly less relevant, along with 'the people' in general.
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