{"id":45900,"date":"2019-08-20T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=45900"},"modified":"2019-08-20T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:50:00","slug":"that-lightbulb-moment-when-a-boss-gets-it-and-displays-how-little-he-does-really-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/08\/20\/that-lightbulb-moment-when-a-boss-gets-it-and-displays-how-little-he-does-really-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"That lightbulb moment when a boss gets it, and displays how little he does really get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEOs of the world's largest companies would like to think they are the masters of the universe: the seers of the modern world. Then you get a headline like this from The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/aug\/20\/bhp-boss-nationalism-a-potential-threat-to-world-economy?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0J1c2luZXNzVG9kYXktMTkwODIw&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=BusinessToday&amp;CMP=bustoday_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rise of nationalism and governments that interfere in markets pose a threat to the global economic system, the boss of\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/bhpbilliton\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">BHP<\/a>, the world\u2019s biggest mining company, has warned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He really did reach that stunning conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>That nationalism challenges globalism is something he has just appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, just maybe, he needs to notice the world outside Davos and his corporate HQ just a little more often?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a little light reading on political economy might help him?<\/p>\n<p>Or just a gram of common sense might be useful?<\/p>\n<p>When this was his lightbulb moment you have to worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEOs of the world&#8217;s largest companies would like to think they are the masters of the universe: the seers of the modern world. Then<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/08\/20\/that-lightbulb-moment-when-a-boss-gets-it-and-displays-how-little-he-does-really-get-it\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}