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Environment & Energy

Warren Stupidity

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1. Capitalism fails without continuous growth.

Reply to NickB79 (Original post)

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 09:09 AM

Jul 2013

The entire financial system is based on growth. The only way to keep the system seemingly functional is by creating speculative bubbles that simulate growth.

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