Word: marketing
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...sacred elements of democracy and the American dream. Although Lou and I rarely agree on policy, I’ve often appreciated his championship of honest, hard-working men and women as well as his attention to civic responsibility and the limits of the market...
...legal expert also criticized the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for its “oversized budget” and its excessive street presence, which he said has failed to shrink the market for crack cocaine...
...certain European political and intellectual circles, such talk would hardly turn heads. But those three men wagging their fingers at the free market were thought to have their capitalist bona fides as part of a generation of European business and government leaders who had pushed for reforming the welfare system and opening up the job market. Often in open ideological war against the entrenched interests of labor unions and leftist politicians, the likes of Sarkozy and Tremonti had long insisted that free-market reforms were the only way to create a more dynamic Europe in an increasingly competitive globalized economy...
...also behind the auto-industry bailouts, new financial regulations and public investments pushed by the Obama Administration. The difference is both in the details and the big picture: not only do specific national economic policies in Europe tend to still trail those of the U.S. on the free-market curve, but there is also a lingering ingrained suspicion about capitalism itself...
...recent BBC global poll found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism, with only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries saying that it is working well. Perhaps not surprisingly, France led the world with 43% who say capitalism is "fatally flawed." Le Monde, meanwhile, reported on Saturday that the economic crisis has revived support for decroissance, a leftist, ecologically driven philosophy that questions the belief in economic growth as a public good...