German musings on American capitalism

The World
The World
Just weeks after the 1929 Wall Street crash, German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem about the rise and fall New York. It could have been written about last year's economic crisis. The World's Alex Gallafent looks at how Brecht's work hits the mark nearly 80 years later.
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