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| Subject: Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: Post-Brexit, we need real capitalism
– not stealth foreign nationalization Wed Sep 11, 2019 10:33 pm | |
| It would be unacceptable if the LSE becomes indirectly controlled by the Chinese authorities
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Hong Kong’s takeover bid for the Stock Exchange is about weaponising commerce
It was Voltaire, as so often, who got it right. In his Letters on the English, the French philosopher and original Anglophile understood what made this country special far better than most domestic observers of the time (or, arguably, since). Writing in 1733, he marvelled at Britain’s religious tolerance, its freedoms and its increasingly commercial society, sentiments which led to his book being burnt in France.
“Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court”, Voltaire explained, “and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/11/post-brexit-need-real-capitalism-not-stealth-foreign-nationalisation/ |
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