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The Power of the Poor

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2009

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56m

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Storyline

To those who watch television in the developed world, there doesn’t seem to be a better system on earth than the capitalist system. We are experiencing the longest economic expansion in modern history. Soviet Communism has been defeated. But make no mistake, as we will demonstrate in this program, capitalism is surprisingly vulnerable. The moment of capitalism’s greatest triumph is the moment of its greatest crisis, its “Moment of Truth”....

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Status
Released
Runtime
56m
Oct 8, 2009
Languages
English
Director
Jim Taylor
Production
Free to Choose Network
Free to Choose Network
Resolution Productions
Resolution Productions
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