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From venture capitalism to anti-capitalists: Obama knew how to pick a winner

Inside Story, an online journal published by Australian Policy Online, highlights Pittsburgh as a "savvy twenty-first century city" that's the "hometown of American venture capitalism."

The article, written during the G-20, highlights the venture capitalists of the past, as well as the architecture their progress enabled, from Downtown's neo-gothic Union Trust building to the monumental courthouse building, and the fantastical PPG building to the Oakland's 535-foot-tall Cathedral of Learning.

The article also goes into the eds and meds discussion, gets into some first-hand protest-talk, and includes this phrase we're just savoring: "Obama knew how to pick a winner."

To read the complete Inside Story blog post, click here.

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