Capitalism

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Capitalism: A Propaganda Hate Film

Michael Shermer | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bank of America, Aig, Goldman Sachs, Free Markets, Capitalism—a Love Story, Gm, Propaganda, Democracy, Michael Moore, Willie Sutton, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Second Bill of Rights, Free Enterprise, Great Depression, Politics News

In Michael Moore's worldview, a goodly portion of the American people are ignorant, uneducated, clueless pinheads too stupid to realize the fundamental principle of a loan.

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Marcy Kaptur's Fight Club

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street, Bailout, Marcy Kaptur, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Capitalism, Politics News

Today, the New York Times announced the 100th small bank failure of 2009. Don't expect any mourning. The bank isn't named "JPMorgan Chase."

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Hey, Who Doesn't Want to Be a Millionaire?

Joel Epstein | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

According to a recent report the number of millionaire households around the world fell from around 11 million in 2007 to 9 million last year. The only region going the other way -- Latin America.

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To "Americans for Prosperity" Capitalism Is a Love Story

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Phillips, C-Span, David Koch, President Obama, It's a Wonderful Life, Ann Coulter, Enron, Frank Capra, Koch Industries, Newt Gingrich, Capitalism, Tsa, Savings and Loan Scandal, The 2016 Olympic Games, Henry Clay Frick, Cnbc, Tyco, Free Market Fundamentalism, Americans for Prosperity, Laura Ingraham, Worldcom, Afp, Larry Kudlow, Supply-Side Economics, Knights of Labor, National Defending the American Dream Summit, Megan McCain, Long-Term Capital Management, John Birch Society, Pinkertons, Politics News

The only distinguishing feature of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "National Defending the American Dream Summit" was its astonishing homogeneity both in thought and in demography.

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Michael Moore And Sean Hannity Face Off: Did Hannity Fib About Going To Church? (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

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Michael Moore was a guest on Sean Hannity's Fox News show tonight for spirited debate about Moore's new movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" and the roots...

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Capitalism: What Love Story?

Nelson Davis | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Capitalism, Business, Entrepreneur, Michael Moore, Ewing Kauffman, Entertainment News

The Michael Moore film is preachy without being "teachy." It ignores the kind of capitalist community contributions made by people such as Andrew Carnegie, Bill Gates, and even Michael Bloomberg.

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The Revolution Will Be Tweeted

Michael Shermer | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Twitter, Libertarian, Capitalism, Trade, Peace, Internet, War, World News

Trade--the free exchange of products, services, and ideas between people--will not prevent war, but it attenuates its likelihood.

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The Shiny Storefront on a Hill

Steven Weber | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Corporate Greed, Capitalism, Corporations, Politics News

What is so wrong with the things we always depended on to lead a healthy existence in our democratic society?

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HuffPost Readers Bear Witness To Recession: "No Matter What Some Politicians Tell You, America is Hurting"

HuffPost's Eyes & Ears | Zach Dorfman/Mallika Rao | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, Capitalism, Health Care, Recession, Politics News

As part of our effort to comprehensively track the effect of the recession, we are asking readers around the country for their stories. These contrib...

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The Daily Szep - Wall Street

Paul Szep | Posted 10.05.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Capitalism, Bailout, Cartoon, Finance, Wall Street, Comedy News

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreclosures, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Larry Summers, Globalization, Economic Bill of Rights, Republic Windows and Doors, Goldman Sachs, Capitalism: A Love Story, General Motors, Dennis Kucinich, General Motors Bankruptcy, Roger & Me, Plutonomy, Financial Deregulation, Deindustrialization, Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Flint, Democracy, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Oligarchy, Nafta, Barack Obama, Sicko, Robert Rubin, Glass-Steagall Act, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Alan Greenspan, Business News

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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Mr. Smith Plays the Farm Card

Rob Smart | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Farms, Industrial Food, Farmers, Food, Agriculture, Science, Fertilizers, Genetically Modified Food, Capitalism, Chemicals, Green News

Right from the start, Mr. Smith works hard to make "good food" advocates out to be a powerful force hellbent on destroying our abundant food system.

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Inviting You to See Capitalism Today at a Theater Near You!

Michael Moore | Posted 12.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Teabaggers, Unemployment, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Financial Crisis, Universal Health Care, Capitalism: A Love Story, Foreclosure, Single Payer, Capitalism, Tea Party, Movies, Barack Obama, Entertainment News

I've had enough. As far as I'm concerned, Tea Bag Nation ends today -- at noon to be precise. The days of the majority of Americans being ignored and played for chumps are over.

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Michael Moore & Me

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bernie Sanders, Socialism, Capitalism, Michael Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News

Capitalism helps create an entrepreneurial spirit. But on the other hand, especially since the Reagan era, what we have seen in this country is an unfettered type of cowboy capitalism.

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This Week In Cheating: Ken Lewis' Pension

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Severance, Pension, Corrupt, Bank of America, $53 Million, Retirement, Megan Fox Naked, Scam, Ken Lewis, Bofa, Capitalism, Scandal, Unfair, B of A, Monty Python, Business News

What's a pension? A system wherein the employee gives the boss money for "safekeeping." Good luck with that.

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Try a Little Tenderness: Americans Give During Tough Times

Nick Mwaluko | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charity, Homelessness, Donating to Charity, Christianity, Seattle, Capitalism, Recession, Bearing Witness 2.0, Politics News

An ear, a meal, a conversation, a strategy, a small but much needed service at the right time--isn't that what we all can give?

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Obama Is No FDR

Eric Stoner | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Martin Luther King, Afghanistan, Protest, Fdr, Climate Change, Gandhi, Capitalism, Iraq, Barack Obama, G-20, Politics News

Rather than encouraging grassroots protest to help push the public debate and further a progressive legislative agenda as Roosevelt did, Obama is unfortunately publicly trying to quash pressure from the left.

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Moment of Clarity - The Capitalism Monster Sh*ts On Us Again

Lee Camp | Posted 11.29.2009 | Comedy

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Russian TV, Me and Michael Moore -- Oh, Irony!

Danny Schechter | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media

Read More: John Malone, Contradictions, Russian Tv, Michael Moore, Capitalism, Ironies, Media News

When the CBS suits shuttered WBCN in Boston, the radio station I used to work for, one more institution that at time was known for offering critical a...

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A New Form of Capitalism: Dealing with the Cause Versus the Effect

James Arthur Ray | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Conscious Business, Conscious Capitalism, Bail Out, Economic Stimulus Package, Consciousness, Conscious, Michael Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story, Capitalism, Living News

Michael Moore's new movie on capitalism, like all of his movies, is thought provoking to say the least. I like Moore, not because I necessarily agree ...

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ReThink Review: Capitalism: A Love Story -- A Must-See Subversion

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment

An excoriating critique of America's economic ideology, Capitalism may go down as one of the most timely and subversive films in movie history

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Capitalism: Never Enough?

Jim Selman | Posted 11.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Skid Row, Shopping, The Story of Stuff, Michael Moore Capitalism: A Love Story, Addiction, Consumption, Capitalism, Chanel, Victor Lebow, Mont Blanc, Recession, New York, Rolex, Designer, Annie Leonard, Economists, Capitalism: A Love Story, Economic Growth, Living News

The epidemic of designer stores is symptomatic of the buying binge we've been on for the last half-century.

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'Capitalism' as Comedy and Tragedy Now Playing in NY and L.A.

Michael Moore | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nightline, The View, Keith Olbermann, Capitalism, Movies, Larry King, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Countrywide, Jay Leno, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Capitalism: A Love Story, Timothy Geithner, Wolf Blitzer, Good Morning America, Entertainment News

My new film is going to make some of you angry; but it's going to give most of you a new sense of hope that we are going to turn around the sick and twisted mess made by the last president. Oh, and you're going to have a good laugh too.

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The Big Bailout of '08: Hindsight Is Blind

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Bank Failures, Paulson, Bailouts, Bernanke, Recession, Michael Moore, Socialism, Dick Fuld, Capitalism, Thain, Geithner, Business News

Maybe Michael Moore's anti-capitalist screed is actually an interesting nexus where right and left converge in hatred of the system that rewards failure and lets the bad guys run the next iteration of the machine.

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Michael Moore Says Capitalism Is "Anti-Jesus," Warns Obama Over Donations (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment

Michael Moore included one detail in his latest film, "Capitalism: A Love Story," just for President Obama. What is it? We know who's supporting you...

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