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This pressure will find support among many American businesses. As competition intensifies and globalizes, the importance of political connections increases, and foreign competitors are at a natural disadvantage in lobbying efforts. Already, businesses that are closer to the government have suffered less than others from foreign competition. In fac

Finally, Porter spoke of how the spread of the financial vernacular of the protocols had caused companies to be run more and more for the sake of shareholders rather than for workers

Economics, which was becoming an ever more abstruse science, producing mathematical treatises with no obvious use,

Henry Laufer’s group, which traded all these investments, was on a roll. Laufer’s key strategies—including buying on the most propitious days of the week, as well as at the ideal moments of the day—remained

“Only around 15% of the money flowing from financial institutions actually makes its way into business investment,” says Rana Foroohar.28 “The rest gets moved around a closed financial loop, via the buying and selling of existing assets, like real estate, stocks, and bonds.” There is some need for liquidity in the system, but 85%? As we’ll see in t

Personally, I’d be willing to sacrifice some of the benefits I get as a consumer and investor in order to achieve these social ends—as long as I knew everyone else was, too. Yet how to create new rules of the game? The

entrenched populists to become president; Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, who styled his own career on the pro-market progressivism that Clinton called the “Third Way”; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian minister and World Bank official, often seen in Aspen and at TED and elsewhere along the MarketWorld circuit, who had recently joine