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April 27, 2021 | 6:26 pm
(Part 1)
Nowadays, free market capitalism is in great disrepute, attacked by both those from the left and the right. Considered almost as gospel truth during the second half of the last century, belief in the free market as the key to long-term economic progress and social justice suffered a serious blow by the beginning of the third millennium when there was more than enough evidence that free market forces kept hundreds of millions of people in both developed and developing countries in dehumanizing poverty. There was no automatic trickle down of incomes from the upper-income groups to the teeming masses. Inequality was the rule rather than the exception both within each nation and among nations. As measured by the so-called GINI coefficient, even the most developed countries manifested extreme inequality in incomes, not to mention in wealth.
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Fact check: Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Mitt Romney do not have sons on boards of energy companies doing business in Ukraine
By Reuters Staff
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Posts claiming that the sons of U.S. President Joe Biden, Senator Mitt Romney, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry “are all on the board of directors for energy companies doing business in Ukraine” have been flagged by Facebook in its efforts to combat online misinformation. The claim is false, although Biden’s son Hunter previously held such a position.
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