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VIDEO: US capitalism in the 21st Century

2015-08-07 12:22:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Conspicuous consumption is back in fashion. But would someone really pay $100 for a doughnut?

Hillary Clinton Is Not the Only Critic of 'Quarterly Capitalism'

2015-07-31 18:45:57| Food - Topix.net

Democratic 2016 presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a speech on economic policy in which she discussed raising the capital-gains tax rate at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business in New York City on July 2015. All have warned of the risks and woes of "quarterly capitalism," or corporate behavior driven by the pressures of stock prices and quarterly earnings.

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VIDEO: Boom-bust capitalism in the US

2015-07-31 17:04:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Colm O'Regan takes a look at the post-war boom and onset of consumer capitalism in the United States.

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Graeme Whitfield: The march of global capitalism is good

2015-07-31 10:34:17| Apparel - Topix.net

I am mildly excited - about as excited as a 43-year-old man can get, in fact - at the news that cult burger chain Five Guys is to open an outlet at the Metrocentre. I first came across the company around eight years ago when I went on a holiday to Washington DC.

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