capitalism

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After meeting with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1984, President Reagan believed that market reforms could move China toward American-style capitalism, democracy and individualism.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

Field said the early days of melding the skunk works team with Ford’s ranks played like the sitcom “Silicon Valley,” in which a group of awkward techies navigates venture capitalism.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Once considered a canny innovator, and then, with his purchase of the flailing Washington Post, a white knight, he has since become the embodiment of capitalism run amok.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

Both cast debt as a bogeyman turning capitalism into an extraction device that, left unchecked or unwisely channeled, can take everything from any of us.

From Salon • May 4, 2026

The capitalism that bloomed in the cities and small towns of North Korea weakened the government’s iron grip on everyday life and did little to enrich the state.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden