2. A prophetic interview with Sir James Goldsmith in 1994 Pt2

Sir James Michael "Jimmy" Goldsmith (26 February 1933 18 July 1997) was an Anglo-French financier. Towards the end of his life, he became a magazine publisher and a politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the short-lived eurosceptic Referendum Party in Britain.
In this interview, Sir Goldsmith discusses the ramifications of free-trade agreements that were about to take place in 1994 (GATT), as you can retrospectively see, he correctly predicted many of the things that happened after that.

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[theporksicle]

Goldsmith was a corporate raider was he not? I've read, and I'm no expert, he was accused of mishandling the funds of publicly owned companies.

Once you've made your millions, or £1 billion+ in Goldsmith's case, its easy to sit down and talk about the dangers of big business' interests being divorced from those of the working class but in doing so you're denying anyone else the chance to get rich the way you did.

[vantagepointmoon]

@theporksicle Corporate raider and an asset stripper, not an angel himself for sure. I don't know what his reasons were for critisizing GATT, I can only speculate, but I guess his participation in the destruction of UK industry gave him a pretty good knowledge of the process. If you're interested, there's a documentary called Mayfair Set on his and the likes past. I would say he did the same thing only on the smaller scale as GATT did to economy overall, part of the reason he was so predictive

[GregHuismans]

If I'm not mistaken the discussion was about GATT. Goldsmith isn't per se saying that production shouldn't be outsourced. He is for tariffs to protect domestic industries so that locally produced goods produced on US wages can be viable in the US market.

[vantagepointmoon]

Not a single word about tariffs, I wonder where did you find it. He is against a 'free-trade' agreement - the one, which is designed by the governments and one that does primarily benefit the governments. 'Free trade' isn't that free and that's exactly his point.

[renos4me]

Unfortunately Sir James is no longer with us. But you can contact Charlie Rose @ his website & Laura Tyson @ Univ. of California - Berkeley - Haas School of Business

[1moomed23]

@dickiepipes indeed, she has to be the dummies bi*** ever, I want to punch her in the face. This is economic 101, lower production cost, more money duh. stupid bitch trying to make a futile argument.

[dickiepipes]

got to feel for Jimmy. looks like he wants to cry over washington stupidity. Bet this girls still believes her own bullshit. 

[leyoleiner]

THIS TALK WAS SOOOOOOO BRILLIANT !!!!! i am so sorry i had not the merits and pleasures to hear this talk before :P But i thank you for putting this up and promoting these amazing and awesome words on your page/channel. i pass these links on to my facebook page, with the hopes and prayers that more can benefit from seeing a real hero talk and deal with one of ''the industry's gate-keepers -- Charlie Rose'', as he tries to ''manage the damages'' that mr James Goldsmith's words make.

[CootCut]

Interviewer interrupts too much and is likely a shill for his corporate masters.

[edarotag84]

Charlie Rose, if you don't feel like a putz now, you are an idiot!

[Budvb]

World War 3 is our only card left for us to increase jobs in America, lol She is an Idiot!

[MrBubble0082]

Charlie looks so confused... awe.. poor charlie :/

[truthbeeeetold]

WOW DID THIS GUY HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL! HE COULD NOT HAVE SPOKEN ANY CLEARER! I KNOW EVERYONE LIKED CLINTON CAUSE HE GOT BLOWJOBS AND PLAYED THE SAXPHONE BUT HE ABSOLUTELY DESTABILIZED OUR COUNTRY! SIMPLE AND PLAIN OUR CONGRESS IS BOUGHT AND I AM SICK OF THIS SHIT!

[niobolo123]

... Fuck. He was right on the money.