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From the Ted Talk by Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Now let me give you two numbers. Over the last three ______, in the United States, in Britain and in the Eurozone, we have invested, ____________, 3.4 trillion dollars on all the wealth-producing goods — things like industrial plants, machinery, office blocks, _______, roads, railways, machinery, and so on and so forth. $3.4 trillion sounds like a lot of money until you compare it to the $5.1 trillion that has been slushing around in the same countries, in our financial ____________, doing __________ nothing during the same period except inflating _____ exchanges and bidding up house prices.

Solution


  1. collectively
  2. stock
  3. schools
  4. institutions
  5. months
  6. absolutely

Original Text


Now let me give you two numbers. Over the last three months, in the United States, in Britain and in the Eurozone, we have invested, collectively, 3.4 trillion dollars on all the wealth-producing goods — things like industrial plants, machinery, office blocks, schools, roads, railways, machinery, and so on and so forth. $3.4 trillion sounds like a lot of money until you compare it to the $5.1 trillion that has been slushing around in the same countries, in our financial institutions, doing absolutely nothing during the same period except inflating stock exchanges and bidding up house prices.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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liberal democracy 2
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john stuart 2
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Important Words


  1. absolutely
  2. bidding
  3. blocks
  4. britain
  5. collectively
  6. compare
  7. countries
  8. dollars
  9. eurozone
  10. exchanges
  11. financial
  12. give
  13. goods
  14. house
  15. industrial
  16. inflating
  17. institutions
  18. invested
  19. lot
  20. machinery
  21. money
  22. months
  23. numbers
  24. office
  25. period
  26. plants
  27. prices
  28. railways
  29. roads
  30. schools
  31. slushing
  32. sounds
  33. states
  34. stock
  35. trillion
  36. united