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The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
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Saint Louis Park
Minnesota
Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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I think that competition will exist even if we discover more oil. We're never going to know how much we have, or how long will it last. You are always going to want to have diversity of supply. I think the Middle East will remain a region of competition, of global competition, fighting for a long time.
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No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
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Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.
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Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
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In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.
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