The Economist is a very left of center publication whose editors and staff advance the western pursuit of a secular socialism in social democratic form. And private currencies would eliminate vast financial and state rents on citizens. So it threatens the globalist ambitions. Consensus seeking is not only a frailty of the female mind, but one of those attracted to globalism.

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