Capitalism

Inaugural Hope, but America Is in Shock

Nathan Gardels | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business

Read More: George Soros, Wall Street Crisis, Global Economy, Wall Street, Joseph Stiglitz, Economy, Economic Crisis, Capitalism, Barack Obama, Business News

The year 2008 is likely to go down in American history as an even more pivotal one than 2001, because the life of the average American is going to be shaped far more by the consequences.

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Falling Off the Edge: The Great Lie of Globalization

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.06.2009 | World

Read More: India, Conflict, Time Magazine, Alex Perry, Terrorism, Africa, Globalization, Capitalism, Asia, Dick Cheney, World News

Perry uses his experiences as a foreign correspondent in Asia and Africa to weigh up the new market theories that tell us that globalization is inevitable, universally beneficial.

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2009: A Time for Real Economic Change

Mike Garibaldi-Frick | Posted 12.29.2008 | Business

America's anger and ingenious will is stoked and a new, more open administration is coming to power looking for innovative, far-reaching ideas.

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JCPenney Describes Sale as "Doorbuster!"

Lisa Wade | Posted 12.27.2008 | Style

Read More: Conspicuous Consumption, Wal-Mart Death, Walmart, Shopping, Economy, Holiday Season Commentary, Wal-Mart Stampede, J.C. Penney, Walmart Stampede, Feeding Frenzy, Capitalism, Wal-Mart, Consumerism, Black Friday Shopping, Black Friday, Walmart Death, Consumers, Style News

There is something truly amazing about a sign touting "Doorbuster!" sales that shows how quickly we forget, how callous we can be, and the level of incompetence at JCPenney.

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Laissez-Faire Capitalism Should Be as Dead as Soviet Communism

Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Economic Crisis, Laissez-Faire, Financial Crisis, Regulation, Marxism, Free Market, Capitalism, Business News

It's time to drive the final nail into the coffin of laissez faire capitalism. If not, the Dr. Frankensteins of the right will surely try to revive the monster and send it marauding through our economy once again.

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The United States vs. Capitalism?

Scott Malcomson | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Brazil, Cuban Embargo, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Capitalism, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, China, Cuba, Group of Rio, Politics News

The rich countries, most innovatively or desperately the United States, are right now developing alternatives to their own system, and very possibly undermining it -- in order to save it.

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You Heart Corruption

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mortgages, Subprime, Free Market, Capitalism, Wall Street, Bernie Madoff, Recession, Economy, Politics News

Everyone needs to stop acting like they're surprised by the recession. It's not cute, and it's painfully insincere.

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Meaningful Capitalism: Change We Can Believe In

Alex Pattakos | Posted 12.17.2008 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, Living With Meaning, Alex Pattakos, Economy, Viktor Frankl, Bob Dylan, Capitalism, Creative Capitalism, Business, Meaning, Aquarian Conspiracy, Megatrends, Living News

"The Times They Are A-Changin," sang Bob Dylan, which is one of his most famous title tracks for it captured the spirit of social and political upheav...

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How the Wal-Mart Stampede Made a Long Holiday Season Longer

Jason Notte | Posted 12.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Wal Mart, Christmas Radio, Frank Capra, Wal-Mart Stampede, Walmart Stampede, Bill O'Reilly, Capitalism, Frosty the Snowman, Dimytai Damour, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, John Gibson, Christmas, Wal Mart Trampling, Radio, Bill O'Reilly War on Christmas, Wal Mart Pr Campaign, Salvation Army, A Christmas Story, Business News

I'm talking to you, dentist office filing clerk. While your boss is busy snaking a vacuum tube under someone's tongue, turn the radio from the all-Christmas station.

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The Lure of Keynesianism

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Free Market, Economy, Robert Reich, Money, Keynes, Socialism, Capitalism, Free Market Ideology, Keynesian Economics, Business News

The way out of our crisis is to limit further the influence of government over the economy, so that even if someone could afford to buy political influence, there would be very little to sell.

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Das Krapital

Steven Weber | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Wal-Mart Death, Socialism, Capitalism, Karl Marx, Business News

For next week's class, please write a seven hundred billion word essay on why Black Friday Trampling will become the next "moshing." Dismissed.

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Capitalism & the Capitalists

Edward J. Murray | Posted 11.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Laissez Faire, Free Market Capitalism, Economic Health, Economic Meltdown, Economic Systems, Financial Crisis, US Businesses, Free Market, Capitalism, Presidents, Barack Obama, Developing Economic Health, Business News

Let's start with a re-thinking our fundamental economic philosophy: capitalism. In order to run effectively over time, democracies need robust economic systems.

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Crisis = Disaster + Opportunity: Yin And Yang, And What China Knows About The Economy

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Chile, Yunus, Microcredit, French, Marianne De Boisredon, Yin, Opportunity, Grameen, Economy, Bank for the Poor, Social Business, Capitalism, China, Communism, Male, Yang, Hedge Funds, Disaster, Financial Crisis, Crisis, Socialist, Female, Private Banks, War on Terror, Banks for the Poor, Women and Business, Women in Business, War in Iraq, Global Recession, Bush Administration, Balanced Economy, Socialism, Business News

This lack of balance is why we need more women involved in leading the world's economy. There is simply too much of a male-focused approach and it is not working!

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KCRW'S Left Right and Center Halloween Edition

Huff Radio | Posted 11.02.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Tony Blankley, Marxism, Socialism, Arianna Huffington, Capitalism, Barack Obama, Matt Miller, Kcrw, Media News

Under Obama, will there be massive government regulation that could stifle a recovery? Guess we'll know on Tuesday.

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Can Obama Save American Capitalism?

Jaron Lanier | Posted 11.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Recession, Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Capitalism, Wall Street, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News

I want to live in a world in which bankers get rich by pushing every neuron in their brains to find great investments in the real world instead of illusory sure bets in a phony world.

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The Great Recession

Larry Abrams | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business

We need an economic system of checks and balances where the public sector competes with the private sector and keeps it honest, and vice versa.

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The Republican Collapse: 100 Years In The Making

Martin Nolan | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Karl Rove, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Dewey, Capitalism, Robert Taft, Aig, Dwight Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, Lehman Brothers, Barry Godlwater, Nelso Rockefeller, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Paulson, Bear Stearns, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson., Home News

THE REPUBLICAN COLLAPSE: 100 YEARS IN THE MAKING Even amid the stressful heat of the campaign, the candidate could not escape the obvious. "The Republ...

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The Daily Szep -- Reaching Out to The Low and Middle Class

Paul Szep | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Elite, Financial Crisis, John McCain, Capitalism, Congressional Bailout, Mccain-Palin, Sarah Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Politics News

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"Spreading the Wealth" Allows for Creativity

Stephen Herrington | Posted 10.29.2008 | Home

If more people have more money, then more business is done and a small increase in taxes comes right back to you. If you are in the forefront of innovation, more comes to you.

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A Credit Deficit or a Democratic Deficit?

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economy, Free Market, Social Capital, Capitalism, Economic Capital, Politics News

The remedy today lies not simply in deleveraging but in re-democratizing -- recreate social capital and trust will follow. Then and only then will markets calm.

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Why The Government Can't "Fix" the Crisis

Danny Schechter | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Moral Hazard, Bernanke, Hedge Funds, Consumer Spending, Greenspan, Fianacial Crisis, Greed, Treasury Department, Depression, Free Market Capitalism, Federal Reserve Bank, Market Confidence, James Suriwieki, Capitalism, Recession, Lehman Bros, Aig, JPMorgan Chase, Consumer Confidence, Wall Street Crash, Congressional Bailout, William Buitner, Bear Stearns, Alan Greenspan, Market Collapse, Business News

In what was for many an unbelievable chain of events, markets started melting down, confidence shattered and believers in unregulated transactions realized something was very, very wrong.

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Greed and Growth: New Priorities for a Stable Future

Jessica Catto | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green

Read More: World Economy, Socialism Accusations, Mccain, Bretton Woods, Obama, Nicholas Sarkozy, Capitalism, Presidential Election, Green News

What we need is a new attitude toward world wealth and what constitutes it. Not an easy task. The world is intermeshed as never before.

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Greenspan Admits: "It Was All My Fault"

William Klein | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Meltdown, Humor, Satire, Political Humor, Market Crash, Stock Market, Economy, Karl Marx, Economic Crisis, Political Satire, Alan Greenspan, Capitalism, Recession, Business News

"I'd been hoping to avoid this getting out," Greenspan said, "but I have an evil twin." With that, he seemed to acquire a bushy head of hair and a white beard and introduced himself as "Karl."

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Conservative Socialism: Spreading Debt Around

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan Economics, Trickle Down Economics, John McCain, Conservative Socialist, Tax Relief, Obama Tax Relief, Conservative Socialism, Reaganism, Capitalism, Obama Socialism, Barack Obama, Tax Policy, Reagan Era Economics, Socialist Economy, Free Market Economics, Socialism, Middle Class Tax Relief, Politics News

Obama's tax policies cannot be described as socialist except by those too ignorant to know the difference or too cynical to reveal the truth.

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Andrew Sullivan Hasn't Read Adam Smith

Ben Cohen | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economics, Andrew Sullivan, Ron Paul, Adam Smith, Free Market Economy, Smith Economics, Economy, Agricultural Economy, Capitalism, Conservative Economics, Politics News

Andrew Sullivan is a self-styled Adam Smith conservative. The problem is, Sullivan, like most of his conservative friends, hasn't actually read Adam Smith's work.

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