Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at

Tom Harbin.com.

Welcome back.

We've got a lot of topics on the table here, the economy, the politics of the economy.

We haven't talked too much about what's going on in Davos.

You know, Bob and I discuss that. I'm here and available to discuss it with you if you'd like.

We're watching the...

Actually, I think the whole conversation about

what's happening in hungry with victor orbonne and all that was was arguably related

to all this

you know the international order is changing as a result of populism and I would argue that the

populism is a response to the disintegration all around the world in developed

countries of the middle class as the predatory class as the overclass as the top 1%

keeps taking more and more and more and more and more and more and one of the ways that

the top 1% are going to cement their control and certainly have in countries like China and

Iran and Saudi Arabia is by locking down the internet.

If you lock down the internet, you shut down the lines of communication.

You can make it harder for people to use social media.

You can limit the reach of social media.

You make it harder for people to get their message out.

You can even, I mean, read everybody's email.

You can track everything everybody's doing.

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