capitalism

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The day after the news about a watershed change in American capitalism, the story behind the story of how Hank Paulson forced the nations top 9 banks to take capital is coming to light.

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  1. noun An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.

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  • Bill Moyers Journal Bill Moyers interviews investment industry giant John Bogle on the crisis in American capitalism. —  NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS
  • The crisis is having a disproportionately brutal impact on Black workers because of the racism inherent in American capitalism. —  CounterPunch
  • The day after the news about a watershed change in American capitalism, the story behind the story of how Hank Paulson forced the nations top 9 banks to take capital is coming to light. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
  • At the bottom of it all, Karl Marx and capitalists can agree - the word capitalism was coined by Marx, after all - that capitalism is a system in which private property is held as the highest standard. —  race42008.com
  • It is socialism vs. capitalism, and socialism is gaining ground ..., the pollster asked a simple question, "Which is a better system -- capitalism or socialism?" —  ARRA News Service
 

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