US spokesman Pelosi: Capitalism has not served our economy as well as it could

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks about the “State of American Democracy” during an event at Chatham House in London, Great Britain, on September 17, 2021. REUTERS / Tom Nicholson

LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuters) – Capitalism has not served the US economy as well as it could have been, US House spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi said Friday, saying the system needed improvement.

“In America, capitalism is our system, it’s our economic system, but it hasn’t served our economy as well as it should,” she said at an event at Chatham House. “So we don’t want to deviate from it, we want to improve it.”

“You cannot have a system where the success of some comes from the exploitation of the workers and the exploitation of the environment and the rest, and we have to correct that.”

Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, writing by William James

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