Who is Mark Carney?
The man comes to us from a glamorous but allegedly mediocre career in banking. He was in fact, as many claim, an ineffectual and counter-productive Bank Governor for both Canada and the U.K., despite his frequent braggadocio of having saved two economies. One recalls that Jordan Peterson disdainfully pegged him as a self-anointed “planetary savior,” for Peterson understood that Carney, a man with no class or pedigree, was given compulsively to self-promotion.
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We should remember, then, that Carney is neither a historian nor a seasoned politician nor a hands-on entrepreneur. Nor is he any sort of metaphorical hockey player or goaltender, as the image proliferates in the media. True, he did skate around in a practice session with
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