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capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2024
The visas provide workers with temporary stay in the U.S.
Earlier this week, Indian American entrepreneur and venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan's appointment as Trump's artificial intelligence (AI) policy adviser .
—Mandy Taheri, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2025
The emergence of a capitalist market economy put ever greater demand on quantification (the act of counting or measuring the quantity of something), calculation and bookkeeping skills.
—James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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In another, a sociologist who embedded himself in a buzzy startup for 19 months describes how engineers cut corners to meet venture capitalists’ expectations.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2024
The visas provide workers with temporary stay in the U.S.
Earlier this week, Indian American entrepreneur and venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan's appointment as Trump's artificial intelligence (AI) policy adviser .
—Mandy Taheri, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
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During the Mao years, China styled itself as a revolutionary country, bent on challenging the existing international system and its institutions dominated by the United States and other Western capitalist countries.
—Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2025
The emergence of a capitalist market economy put ever greater demand on quantification (the act of counting or measuring the quantity of something), calculation and bookkeeping skills.
—James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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That left a landscape of haves and have-nots, with nearly 200 veteran free agents still unsigned.Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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So there is a never-ending dialogue between the haves and don’t-want-to-haves, who each claim a piece of the art.David Aldridge, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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New York and London are both large cultural and financial hubs, and linking them by rail opens up incredible opportunities for economic and recreational growth.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
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The study ranks all 50 states for 35 metrics across five categories, including social and economic factors, physical environment, behaviors, clinical care, and health outcomes.Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
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But just under 20% of the city’s general revenue comes from commercial property taxes, according to a report from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan public policy institute.Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 13 Jan. 2025
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At the high end of commercial banking, those able to operate and service their clients globally will be well positioned.Michael Abbott, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Some of these are artists had galleries worked with during their lifetime, but few had a representative with as much power and money as Hauser & Wirth.Maddie Klett, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
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The researchers’ analysis suggests this may also be allegedly linked to money laundering.Matt Burgess, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2025
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Enlisting their quintessentially Italian ingenuity, the fashion magnates took over the Fay brand which was, at the time, a producer of technical garments for fishermen and firefighters, and set their sights on adapting the firmly utilitarian design for a luxury clientele.Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
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To counter this, construction magnate turned shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to the US government the building of a new class of seaplane bigger than anything previously conceived that would essentially be an airborne freighter.David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
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In the latest iteration of Bill Ackman's activist investing career, the billionaire hedge fund manager is using the power of his 1.5 million followers on X to try to influence one man in particular: Donald Trump.Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
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The deal was facilitated by Howard Lutnick, the billionaire CEO of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald (which provides banking services for, and has reportedly invested in, Tether) and Donald Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary.Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalist. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.
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