The state would now own everything. 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. (52:37–52:42)
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Asserts that Jamaica had no foreign reserves or currency during the economic decline.
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