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Outmaneuvered by his hard-line rivals, Zhao was stripped of power and placed under house arrest. The daring innovator who had introduced capitalist policies to post-Mao Zedong China spent his last 16 years virtually imprisoned, rarely allowed to venture away from his home on a quiet alley in Beijing. As his hair turned white, Zhao passed many lonely hours driving golf balls into a net in his courtyard...
...said the current economic crisis is God's punishment for a capitalist...
...named for Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution) that got rich cozying up to Chávez while oil prices skyrocketed in recent years. He and his friends say instead that he's simply a banker Chávez officials have found trustworthy, a man who can deal in capitalist circles but who funds three foundations for the poor and deep down sympathizes with the revolution's social agenda...
...been called the world's most famous capitalist. How is the recession treating you? We've been doing well. I finished many jobs a year ago, two years ago, sold things a couple of years ago - not because I had any great vision, but I guess in retrospect I did. But we have many great jobs that were finished a couple of years ago, as opposed to now. We really missed a large portion of the depression...
...confusion, I couldn’t help asking questions: Why can none of these teams settle for a draw? Why do these competitions featuring only American participants contain the word “world” in their title? Why is America inclined—contrary to its capitalist ethos—to reward bottom-placed (read “failing”) teams with the first choice in the draft? Come to think of it, why is there a draft?The answers to these questions I do not intend to address here—not only because...