Word: capitalisme
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3. On money: "We are not supposed to want money. Materialism, we learn at a young age, is frowned upon. This attitude does not seem altogether compatible with a system of capitalism, but as a code to live by it is probably - and theoretically - an admirable way to go: do...
Growing pains may be forgiven in emerging democracies. But if the current political instabilities are allowed to metastasize, Asian nations could tire of the notion of democracy altogether because it's considered too messy, ineffectual or corrupt. In South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines, a study by the...
But at the same time, Raúl Castro had to notice that his Brazilian host, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - who is the head of Brazil's Workers Party and supposedly the Castros' leftist soulmate - is perhaps Latin America's most acclaimed capitalist leader. Capitalism's...
Ponzi, who was released from prison and deported back to Italy in 1934, set the standard in the genre. But the golden age of Ponzi and pyramid schemes didn't arrive for decades. (The two highly similar cons are often conflated, though in Ponzi schemes, a ringleader facilitates the entire...
Anarchist groups have always had a stronger presence in Greece, even as the government struggles to pursue its First World ambitions while battling the ghosts of a military dictatorship that ruled from 1967 to 1974. But the current clashes are also linked to a broader movement across the West that...