Capitalism

It is very difficult for companies to pursue other goals than profits when they face tough competition, and when the behavior of their competitors is driven solely by profits.

Gates' attacks the system that has historically done the most to alleviate poverty -- traditional capitalism -- in favor of an implausible alternative -- a third way that mixes profits and altruism.

The notion that capitalism, which is all about self-interest, can be amended somehow to be more about helping others -- and still be capitalist -- strikes many as hopelessly Pollyannaish and bizarre.

The disappearance of water and credit has a common cause: a broken neo-classic capitalist system that forgot to factor in the replacement cost of natural resources and the costs of pollution.

Why, with Wall Street collapsing around us, do we continue to privatizing everything that isn't nailed down?

We are not machines created to make profit, says Muhammad Yunus. We are three-dimensional humans who need much more than financial profits to survive and thrive.

What makes China unique is that they are the first nation to develop a system of what is essentially totalitarian capitalism. And what is the first lesson any capitalist learns? Keep the customers happy.

My flight from Washington DC to Atlanta landed late. The connection to San Francisco still wasn't due to take off for a few minutes but the airline (...

Our economy, with all its volatility, is exactly the economy any sane person would have predicted after the wholesale decline of regulation, as both a reality and an idea, in the eighties and nineties.

A little economic trauma is exactly what this country needs for everyone to realize what the last eight years has done to this land, once the largest economy in the world.

What a truly amazing thing it is that we are finally thinking globally, and that true globalization is now understood also as acting locally.

Citigroup has became the poster child of so much that is wrong, and much of what is happening throughout corporate America.

That Davos, the meeting place of the wealthy and powerful, should include themes spoken at conferences populated more by NGOs than executives means that the war has indeed been won.

What is it America has against learning from experience? Do we really enjoy being lied to? Or gambling on Wall Street and losing when we play against the house?

Help America spend our way out of a problem created by too much spending? Only in America.

Whether creator David Simon thinks so or not, The Wire isn't a searing attack on the excesses of capitalism! That's not to say that the show isn't audacious.