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🗓️ 26 September 2024
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Former fund manager Ruchir Sharma spent most of his career as a money manager on Wall Street. Lately though, he’s become a fierce critic of modern capitalism – arguing that the economic system is less fair and less efficient than it has ever been.
What’s the fix?
Produced and presented by Vivienne Nunis
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0:00.0 | Today on Business Daily, what went wrong with capitalism. |
0:06.9 | It's a question posed in a new book by the financier Rushia Sharma. |
0:11.5 | He worked for some of the biggest names on Wall Street, |
0:15.0 | and he says that gave him an ideal vantage point |
0:17.7 | for observing how money flows through the global economy. His conclusion, that |
0:23.5 | capitalism is failing to fulfil its potential. This is what made America great, but in the last |
0:31.2 | few years and decades, there's been such a perversion of capitalism. So what has gone wrong with |
0:36.9 | capitalism and can it be fixed? That's Business Daily with me, I'm such a perversion of capitalism. So what has gone wrong with capitalism? |
0:39.3 | And can it be fixed? |
0:44.7 | That's Business Daily with me, Vivienne Nunes, from the BBC World Service. |
0:51.3 | Capitalism has a problem. |
0:56.7 | That's a view you might expect to hear from critics on the left. Not a banker who spend almost his entire career on Wall Street. But according to Rushia Sharma, lately |
1:03.2 | capitalism has been badly distorted and he's clear about who's to blame. Big spending governments |
1:10.2 | addicted to debt, and central |
1:12.2 | banks hooked on stimulus, policies that pump money into the economy. I sat down with |
1:18.6 | Rushya Shama in London recently to dig into some of those criticisms, but we began in the place |
1:24.4 | where he first started thinking about economic systems, India in the 1970s and 80s. |
1:30.5 | This book, more than anything else, is a revisionist history of capitalism. |
1:34.6 | Because the way that I think the young think of capitalism today is in a very discredited way. |
1:40.8 | Most young people in Western countries today say they would rather have socialism than capitalism. |
1:46.8 | And that was a very telling statement for me, because I grew up in India, as you say, in the |
1:52.1 | 70s and 80s, which was very socialist in nature. |
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