Showing posts with label Support For 'Free Market' Capitalism Drops Below China. Show all posts
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Friday, April 8, 2011

U.S. Support For 'Free Market' Capitalism Drops Below China, Brazil, Poll Finds

Nearly three years after the financial system first came perilously close to collapse, American support for an unregulated free market appears to have cratered.

A new report by GlobeScan, an international opinion research consultancy, suggests that the number of Americans who believe in the strength of the free market economy dropped markedly last year. In fact, according to the survey results, both Brazil and China, on a percentage basis, ranked higher than the U.S. in overall support for free market capitalism.

The report, released this week and based on 12,884 interviews in 25 countries, asked participants to agree or disagree with the statement that the "free market economy is the best system on which to base the future of the world."