Ian Bremmer - Market Quotes

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The free market tide has now receded. In its place has come state capitalism, a system in which the state functions as the leading economic actor and uses markets primarily for political gain.

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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

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I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly... they want monopolies, they want government subsidies, they want preferences – they're not interested in free markets.

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In the last 21 months, if you've learnt anything, it's that the state is back. If the free market fails, it's not because it's been defeated by state capitalism; the only people that can defeat the free market is us, we're the only ones who can destroy it.

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It's not a third way between state capitalism and free markets, it is the free market way. Multi-national corporations should be the principal actors, but they should be properly regulated.

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Political scientists don't work at banks—which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questions—as analysts at banks are—you never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.

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