Word: populist
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...this framework look as though they will be kept in the Congress’s final bill, including a stronger consumer-protection agency and an over-the-counter exchange for derivatives. Yet as the legislation has gained steam and popularity over the last few weeks, politicians are predictably spewing populist demagoguery and wasting an opportunity to implement intelligent regulations. Congress must keep the unintended effects of their measures in mind as they finalize the legislative details on trading derivatives and supervising the Federal Reserve System...
...inflation in the early 1980s, or Chairman Ben Bernanke ’75’s opening up of lending windows to major investment banks during the financial crisis, despite the deep political unpopularity of such measures. By opening up the Federal Reserve’s operations to naked populist critiques, the Sanders amendment begins to violate this trust in an independent and apolitical central banking authority...
...deal with this? In fact, I think you'll see in these crises two different types of political responses. One, which I would say is a more polarizing and more populist and even scapegoating kind of leadership role. And one which says, no, lets get down to the real issues, lets work together, lets be more collective in our response. Let's be more democratic in our response...
...third Papandreou to hold this office. In style, you are a very different leader from your father and grandfather. Your father was a very populist leader in many ways. Is that difference just reflective of your different personalities? Or is it also that it's a different time? Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras. I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail...
...choices and survive. "Fidesz has made a transformation over the past two or three years into a mainstream conservative party," he says. "They are all about fiscal discipline. I don't think they will make a U-turn from the reform policies of the current government. They made no populist promises during the campaign. These [promises] were made by Jobbik...