YouTube | February 04 2010

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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  1. Brilliant chap, foretelling our plight with economic eloquence. Catherine, have you read The Trap?

  2. Brilliant chap, foretelling our plight with economic eloquence. Catherine, have you read The Trap?

  3. great find. i had seen this referenced somewhere else recently, byut never saw this. hindsight is always 20/20, but man he was pretty on it. so many of his predictions were DEAD on and we are living the repercussions.

    might we say that coup was just as alive in 1994?

  4. great find. i had seen this referenced somewhere else recently, byut never saw this. hindsight is always 20/20, but man he was pretty on it. so many of his predictions were DEAD on and we are living the repercussions.

    might we say that coup was just as alive in 1994?

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