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World Service,08 Sep 2011,18 mins

America's Winners

Business Daily

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Lesley Curwen reports from the US on the economic haves and have nots of the last decade. She takes a trip to the Hamptons to meet Ron Baron, billionaire mutual fund manager. He says that tough times are actually the best time to make a fortune. And, Lesley also talks to George W Bush's former commerce secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who admits the American dream has taken a knock in the last ten years.

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