{"id":254794,"date":"2025-10-20T14:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=254794"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:02:17","slug":"opinion-the-end-of-free-market-hypocrisy-what-americas-u-turn-means-for-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/opinion-the-end-of-free-market-hypocrisy-what-americas-u-turn-means-for-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: The End of Free-Market Hypocrisy? What America&#8217;s U-Turn Means for the Caribbean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-1587328933\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-2352884317\" class=\"antig-before-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/medicalbenefitsscheme\" aria-label=\"ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1200\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1200\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:341\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Professor C. Justin Robinson<\/strong><br><em>Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, The UWI Five Islands Campus<\/em><\/p><div id=\"antig-2262678469\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:169\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:576\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:432\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:864\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades, the IMF and World Bank advised, some say forced, Caribbean nations to privatize essential services. Now Washington is doing the opposite\u2014does that change everything? When the United States government took a 10% stake in Intel this August\u2014followed by equity positions in four other strategic companies\u2014it wasn&#8217;t just another policy shift. It was the unmasking of one of international development&#8217;s most enduring deceptions: that free-market fundamentalism was ever about sound economics rather than geopolitical power.&nbsp; Caribbean nations watching this transformation have every right to feel vindicated\u2014and furious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Double Standard Exposed<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"antig-1780273889\" class=\"antig-content_4 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-4288435635\" class=\"antig-content_12 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:169\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:576\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:432\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:864\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As of October 2025, the U.S. government now holds:<\/p><div id=\"antig-2727225920\" class=\"antig-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ReggaeInTheParkAntigua\" aria-label=\"lucanio\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:240\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:819\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>10% of Intel ($8.9 billion)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>15% of MP Materials ($400 million)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dual 5% stakes in Lithium Americas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10% of Trilogy Metals ($35.6 million)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A &#8220;golden share&#8221; giving President Trump veto power over U.S. Steel&#8217;s major decisions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, NVIDIA and AMD pay Washington 15% of their China chip revenues\u2014what Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick openly calls &#8220;rent.&#8221; National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett described this as &#8220;a down payment on a sovereign wealth fund,&#8221; promising &#8220;many more cases.&#8221; This is precisely the state capitalism model Washington condemned for decades when practiced by China. When Chinese state-owned enterprises received government support, U.S. officials called it &#8220;unfair advantages&#8221; and &#8220;predatory financing.&#8221; But when America does it? It&#8217;s &#8220;industrial policy.&#8221; It&#8217;s &#8220;national security.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Caribbean&#8217;s Forced Experiment<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"antig-2452346569\" class=\"antig-content_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"500X500 (1)\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The contrast with Caribbean experiences couldn&#8217;t be starker. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the IMF and World Bank made privatization a prerequisite for development assistance. By 2001, over 80% of World Bank water loans required cost recovery measures; 40% explicitly mandated privatization. Jamaica&#8217;s trajectory tells the story. After a 1990s financial crisis\u2014partly caused by earlier IMF-mandated financial deregulation\u2014debt reached 147% of GDP by 2013. Each rescue came with more demands: privatize airports, seaports, water systems. Sell state assets. Gut public services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England&#8217;s experience with Thames Water cruelly exposes the potential costs of privatization. The result? \u00a378 billion paid to overseas shareholders, \u00a360 billion in accumulated debt, record sewage dumping, and now a \u00a33 billion bailout request. Scotland, which resisted privatization, invested 35% more per household with lower bills and better service.<\/p><div id=\"antig-4052212678\" class=\"antig-content_3 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chtamarketplace.com\/\" aria-label=\"Social FaceBook Cover Desk_Mobile\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:711\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:711\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:111\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:379\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:285\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:569\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:711\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"2560\" height=\"949\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What This Reveals<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"antig-1974332716\" class=\"antig-content_6 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Three uncomfortable truths emerge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First, economic prescriptions imposed on developing nations were never about optimal policy.<\/strong> They served market access for Western corporations and geopolitical advantage. When U.S. strategic interests require state intervention\u2014for semiconductors or steel\u2014ideology bends instantly. But vulnerable island nations needing state capacity for water, healthcare, or disaster resilience were told such thinking was backwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second, the double standard is structural, not accidental.<\/strong> The same institutions that forced Jamaica to privatize utilities remain silent as Washington takes equity stakes and exercises government control over private companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Third, free-market fundamentalism was always for export, not domestic consumption.<\/strong> As Wall Street Journal economics commentator Greg Ip observed: &#8220;Capitalism in America is starting to look like China.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Opportunity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This moment offers Caribbean nations and other developing countries crucial opportunities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recognize &#8220;technical advice&#8221; as power politics.<\/strong> When multilateral institutions controlled by wealthy nations prescribe policies they refuse to follow, it&#8217;s not economics\u2014it&#8217;s colonialism with spreadsheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Embrace diverse models.<\/strong> Singapore&#8217;s government controls 37% of its stock market. South Korea and Japan developed through state-guided capitalism. Scotland&#8217;s public water outperforms England&#8217;s privatized system. There is no single path, regardless of what Washington preaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prioritize resilience over ideology.<\/strong> For disaster-prone small islands, the question isn&#8217;t whether government should manage essential services\u2014it&#8217;s how to structure involvement for maximum accountability and effectiveness. Climate vulnerability demands robust state capacity, not dismantled public sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Build regional solidarity.<\/strong> Caribbean collective voices through CARICOM carry more weight than individual nations negotiating alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fundamental issue isn&#8217;t state capitalism versus free markets\u2014both can succeed or fail. What matters is accountability: who controls decisions, in whose interest, and with what consequences for failure? Thames Water&#8217;s offshore investors extracted billions while systems crumbled, facing no accountability. That&#8217;s the real scandal, whether in privatization or state control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reclaiming Policy Space<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington&#8217;s pivot doesn&#8217;t automatically change power realities. The institutions dispensing loans with conditions remain controlled by wealthy nations. But intellectual liberation is the first step. Caribbean economists and policymakers should feel freer to now examine what actually works\u2014Singapore&#8217;s state guidance, Nordic social welfare, Cuba&#8217;s public health achievements despite sanctions\u2014without apologizing. They can ask: What does climate resilience require? What protects against disaster-induced debt spirals? What gives vulnerable nations maximum policy flexibility?&nbsp; The answers won&#8217;t fit tidy ideological boxes. That&#8217;s precisely the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If America can take stakes in strategic companies when it suits national interests, why can\u2019t Caribbean nations maintain public ownership of essential services when it serves their populations. If Washington demands revenue shares from tech giants, why can\u2019t small island states can structure economies to capture more value from tourism and natural resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The End of an Era<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades, the United States positioned itself as the global champion of free markets, transforming lectures into loan conditions through the IMF and World Bank. Caribbean nations privatized assets, liberalized markets, and gutted government capacity\u2014not because evidence suggested these policies would work for small island states facing unique challenges, but because refusing meant losing development finance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the evangelist has abandoned the faith\u2014while maintaining the pulpit.&nbsp; This isn&#8217;t just hypocrisy. It&#8217;s revelation: economic orthodoxy shifts with political convenience, proving it was never science but ideology serving power.&nbsp; The implications ripple beyond trade policy. When wealthy nations preach principles, they immediately abandon when convenient, developing nations owe it to their citizens to craft policies serving local needs and conditions, not distant geopolitical interests. The era of independent Caribbean economic thinking must have a rebirth\u2014not in defiance of multilateral institutions, but in recognition that their prescriptions were never designed for small island survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The choice between state capitalism and free markets is a false binary. What matters is building resilient, accountable systems that work for your people. Washington&#8217;s U-turn finally makes that truth undeniable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Prof. C. Justin Robinson, a Vincentian and UWI graduate, holds a BSc in Management Studies, MSc in Finance and Econometrics, and PhD in Finance. With over 20 years at UWI, he has served in various leadership roles, including Dean and Pro Vice Chancellor, Board for Undergraduate Studies. A Professor of Corporate Finance with extensive research publications, he is actively involved in regional financial institutions and is currently the Principal of&nbsp; The UWI Five Islands Campus in Antigua and Barbuda.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"antig-874864635\" class=\"antig-in-comments_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/@hadeedmotorsltd\" aria-label=\"Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Professor C. Justin RobinsonPro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, The UWI Five Islands Campus For decades, the IMF and World Bank advised, some say forced, Caribbean nations to privatize essential services. Now Washington is doing the opposite\u2014does that change everything? When the United States government took a 10% stake in Intel this August\u2014followed by equity positions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":240548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>OPINION: The End of Free-Market Hypocrisy? 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