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"Rather than simply focusing on the party's traditional xenophobia and opposition to immigration, she has cleverly harnessed widespread anger about banks, finance, multinationals, globalization and Europe," writes Emma-Kate Symons in The Australian Financial Review.
During my last trip to the country, I wrote about the preponderance of finance multinationals and innovation percolating in Sao Paulo and suggested it could be a hub for future financial innovation.
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Almost all run (or advise or finance) huge multinational enterprises.
Most of those banks have combined into sprawling regional banking companies, like BankOne, First Union and Wells Fargo, that find more fertile opportunities serving consumers and small businesses than trying to finance a multinational company.
This is a self-denying ordinance on the part of the moneymakers, finance houses, multinational corporations and private equity companies that have got involved in social care in increasing numbers.
What Cain promises instead, with all his talk of "common sense solutions," is the practicality and simplicity of the business world, itself imagined not as the realm of Wall Street finance or multinational Fortune 500 companies (both of which Cain also knows up close), but rather as the place where everyday know-how and the logic of the kitchen table prevail.
A.O. Scott commented on the opportunity to make a film critical of international finance, "that multinational weapons manufacturers can be portrayed as more decent, civic-minded and principled than global financiers surely says something about the state of the world".
This matters not just for living standards but also for Ireland's fiscal situation: it is GNP that does the heavy lifting on the public finances, since multinational profits are taxed so lightly.If measuring Ireland's debt as a share of GDP understates the burden, measuring it as a share of GNP overstates it because it neglects the contribution that foreign firms do make to taxes.
As a small-scale fightback against globalised high finance and footloose multinationals channelling profits offshore, a number of regions have started "parallel currencies", which can only be spent on goods and services from local businesses.
And there's another benefit to an emerging market that plays host to lots of finance and consulting multinationals.
The G20 has also done little to improve transparency around multinationals' finances.
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