No disrespect, but you wouldn't normally expect the Prime Minister of the Netherlands to raise conce...
No disrespect, but you wouldn't normally expect the Prime Minister of the Netherlands to raise concerns about the state of world markets and for it to be taken seriously. But that's what Wim Kok did when he said the current environment in his country and many other major Western markets with record low employment, and booming house prices and stock markets was bringing these countries to the edge of an economic "volcano" In truly Liberal Dutch fashion he went onto talk about how this current scenario was creating a greater divide between the haves and have-nots in many societies. But the d...
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