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America is being haunted by the ghost of 'stagflation,' the brutal combination of stagnant growth and high inflation that made the 1970s such a slog
Stubbornly high inflation and signs of slowing growth are bringing back memories of the dreaded "st…
Harry Robertson
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'We've misdrawn the battle lines of capitalism:' A founding member of Bain's social impact fund shares what really needs to be done to make stakeholder capitalism work
We need a standardized environmental, social, and corporate governance rules in order to make any r…
Marguerite Ward
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Capitalism needs an upgrade: On the 50th anniversary of Milton Friedman's landmark essay, the onus is on stakeholder capitalists to get their act together
JUST Capital CEO Martin Whittaker says the Friedman Doctrine's time is up. He calls for a change in…
Martin Whittaker
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As the pandemic, fires, and inequity all rage, free market icon Milton Friedman's declaration that the sole responsibility of business 'is to increase its profits' sounds emptier than ever
Half a century ago, the economist published an essay that shaped presidencies, corporations, and th…
Marguerite Ward
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A Nobel Prize-winning economist explains what Milton Friedman got wrong
Or to take another example, think of a company polluting a lake. Maybe they can make some extra mon…
Jacqui Frank,Kara Chin,Sara Silverstein
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just revived a classic argument by conservative economist Milton Friedman about who pays for pollution
Debt financing for infrastructure construction is notoriously complicated, involving multiple parti…
Jim Edwards
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The economist Joseph Stiglitz explains why he thinks the late Milton Friedman's ideas have contributed to rising inequality in the US
Friedman made his assertion as a natural extension of a defining passage in Adam Smith's definitive…
Richard Feloni
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Milton Friedman's Brilliant 2 Minute Defense Of Capitalism
Friedman, who is famous for his ideas on monetarism, was against the idea of a Federal Reserve. Ho…
Sam Ro
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The 13 Books That Every Young Conservative Must Read
Over the past few years, the Tea Party groundswell and the presidency of Barack Obama has fueled a …
Grace Wyler,Paul Szoldra
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Boeing lost its way. Other companies should take heed.
Boeing is a quintessential example of America's rotting business culture. After 40 years of mistake…
Linette Lopez
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Silicon Valley elites are pushing a controversial new philosophy
Marc Andreessen recently wrote a 5,000 word essay vilifying anyone questioning the unrestrained pro…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Wall Street is declaring victory too early the US is still headed for a recession
Leading economists say the threat of recession has passed, but there's a lot of reasons to think th…
William Edwards
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The future of corporate leadership: How CEOs will navigate the next decade
Chief executives are at a turning point — and how they address today's most pressing issues can mak…
Brandon T. Harden,Karen K. Ho,Marguerite Ward
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confused 2 of history's most famous economists and ended up name checking the most ridiculed town in the UK
"I was just reading today about how Milton Keynes, a famous economist back in the day, predicted th…
Bill Bostock,Bill Bostock
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks AI, closing the Activision Blizzard deal, and his best business decision so far
Satya Nadella sat down with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner to talk OpenAI, cricket, and his bigg…
Mathias Döpfner
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Nancy Pelosi rips into capitalism, saying it 'has not served our economy as well as it should'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said "our economic system" has helped some people thrive from the "explo…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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What the next generation of CEOs need to know today
In Insider Weekly: What it takes to be a good CEO, inside Better's week from hell, and why the mass…
Matt Turner,Phil Rosen,Jordan Parker Erb
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One chart shows worker satisfaction is quickly becoming a top priority for executives
New research from research firm JUST Capital shows there's been a shift in public perception over t…
Marguerite Ward
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181 CEOs of public companies, including Apple, JPMorgan Chase, and Walmart, have declared a company's purpose is to serve more than just shareholders
The economist Joseph Stiglitz broke down the shift for us in an interview last year: Public sentime…