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  "id": 8054156,
  "title": "From a 17th-century trading company to Amazon, 25 companies that shaped capitalism",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/from-a-17th-century-trading-company-to-amazon-25-companies-that",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-17T15:20:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Quartz",
    "slug": "quartz",
    "url": "https://qz.com/companies-that-shaped-modern-capitalism"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The company that invented the modern stock, the one that invented the assembly line, the ones that turned failure into financial regulation — the 25 companies whose specific innovations built the economic system the rest of the world now runs on",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}