When you explained the capitalist system to your students, you presumably tried to highlight the advantages that this system has, and probably did so out of conviction ... ... yes, indeed! Has this conviction diminished over the past years and decades?
If I were asked to pick the headline message of the presentation, it is that we are rapidly running out of time, and may therefore be running out of solutions. 2. The two big flashpoints are: renewed anxiety in the US about recession, and the deepening of the sovereign debt crisis in the Euro area.