U.S. Speaker Pelosi: Capitalism has not served our economy as well as it could

LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Capitalism has not served the U.S. economy as well as it could have, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday, saying that the system needed to be imrpoved.

"In America, capitalism is our system, it is our economic system, but it has not served our economy as well as it should," she told a Chatham House event. "So what we want to do is not depart from that, but to improve it."

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, writing by William James)