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Saudi prince and founder of Kingdom Holding, Alwaleed invested in Citigroup, Twitter, Four Seasons and News Corp and advocated economic opening and women's employment in the kingdom. He was detained in 2017 in Mohammed bin Salman's anti-corruption campaign.
Political axes
Alwaleed bin Talal leans further toward globalism than 95% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where Alwaleed bin Talal stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, Alwaleed bin Talal sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Current reconciling Islam with electoral democracy through conservative religious parties that run in elections and support a market economy and Muslim values in public life, like Turkey's early AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
Synthesis that unites free markets and economic freedoms with the appreciation of tradition, order, and institutions, defending prudent change and social stability within the framework of liberal democracy.
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CommunalismAnarchist35%
Argentine president from 1989 to 1999 elected by Peronism, Menem embraced neoliberalism: he privatized state firms, pegged the peso to the dollar, opened the economy, aligned with the US and pardoned junta officers.
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A unitary presidential republic governed for decades by the Colorado Party, with low taxation, a soy- and beef-exporting economy, major hydroelectric output at Itaipú, and a conservative, largely Catholic society bilingual in Guaraní.
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A city-state of the Italian Renaissance, Florence united banking and commercial capitalism, factional disputes among guilds and families such as the Medici, and a patronage that revolutionized the arts, letters, and political thought.
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