And if you were, you know, had a home and you were a landlord, you didn't own it. The state nationalized everything. We had no foreign reserves, no foreign currency. We had nothing. And Jamaica's economy went tanked when we were on a trajectory to be like one of the six little tigers. And as a consequence, I mean, there was the very rich and the very poor and nobody in between. I learned about economic principles long before I minored in economics. (52:43–52:51)
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Asserts that Jamaica's economy declined when it was on a trajectory to be economically prosperous.
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