Capitalism

Death Bonds: Watch Big Banks Make a Killing (Literally)

Sally Kohn | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Video, Bailout, Wall Street, Funny Videos, Death Bonds, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Capitalism, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Business News
Sally Kohn

Goldman Sachs and other bailed out banks are putting big bucks into death bonds. When their last sub-prime mortgage scam went bust, we lost our houses. This time, we'll lose our lives.

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Michael Moore's New Movie on Capitalism a Breakthrough

Robert Greenwald | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Moore, Capitalism, Capitalism a Love Story, Los Angeles, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News
Robert Greenwald

Who would have thought that the 21st century challenge to capitalism would come in the form of a rip-roaring funny and emotionally moving film?

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Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story Will Find a Ready Audience

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Greed, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Financial Crisis, Movie, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Capitalism: A Love Story, Capitalism Movie, Business News
Mark Weisbrot

Moore is questioning whether the whole incentive structure, moral values, and political economy of American capitalism are fit for human beings.

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Corporatists vs. Capitalists

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Conservatives, Public Option, Corporations, Corporatists, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Media, Democrats, Capitalists, Capitalism, Republicans, Health Care Industry, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

I don't blame the health care companies. I would do the same thing in their position. They'd have to be stupid and negligent not to buy Max Baucus. I don't blame them, I blame us.

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From Toronto to Pittsburgh to Jay Leno, Capitalism Marches On...

Michael Moore | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Labor, Class Warfare, Venice Film Festival, Jay Leno, Michael Moore, Toronto Film Festival, Afl-Cio, Universal Health Care, Capitalism: A Love Story, Single Payer, Capitalism, Labor Unions, Movies, Pittsburgh, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News
Michael Moore

My crew and I had one thought in mind while we were filming Capitalism: What if the powers-that-be refuse to give us funding for the next movie after they see what we've put in this one?

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Michael Moore's New Film Rocks AFL-CIO

Randy Shaw | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Afl-Cio, Rose Ann DeMoro, Single Payer, Capitalism, Michael Moore, Marcy Kaptur, National Nurses Organizing Committee, Capitalism: A Love Story, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News
Randy Shaw

This is not only Moore's best film, but it is the most politically incendiary film put on the American screen in memory.

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Michael Moore: Newspapers 'Slit Their Own Throats' (VIDEO)

Posted 11.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Moore Newspapers, Video, Newspapers, Michael Moore, Capitalism a Love Story, Michael Moore Media, Death of Newspapers, Capitalism, Newspaper Industry, Capitalism Movie, Media News

Filmmaker Michael Moore -- who's been touring the world promoting his new film, "Capitalism: A Love Story" at several international film festivals -- ...

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Signs of Seduction and Change Sprout on Cuban Bodies

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, Social Change, Generation Y, Capitalism, Embargo, Fidel Castro, Capitalism: A Love Story, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Dying your hair blue, getting a tattoo or attaching a ring to your navel is no longer seen as an ideological debility. Signs have begun to sprout on bodies, of seduction and change.

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"Capitolism": A Race between Congressional Corruption and the Most Massive Citizen Involvement in U.S. Legislative History

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Corporate Money, Federal Corruption, Consumer Spending, Kentucky, Capitalism, John Authers, John Yarmuth, Healthcare Costs, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Representative Yarmuth, Congressman Yarmuth, Louisville, Special Agent Christiansen, Big Money, Ways and Means Committee, 70 % of GDP, Legal Corruption, Mad as Hell Doctors' Cross Country Tour, Carl Christiansen, Capitolism, Insurance Reform, Rachel Newton, Legalized Corruption, Health Care, Campaign Finance Reform, Fbi, Healthcare, Co-Pay, Politics News
Gail McGowan Mellor

All of the sudden five-year increase in consumer spending, which primed the U.S. economy for the fall, can be attributed to health care costs.

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Thanks Glenn Beck -- This 'Socialism' Sounds Great!

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Housing Market, Amazing Grace, Rush Limbaugh, Carter, Laissez-Faire, Michael Steele, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Jfk, Capitalism, Health Care, Christian, Forclosure, Arianna Huffington, Fdr, Russia, Marx, Rasmussen-Reports, Norway, Sweden, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?

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Bitter for Cadbury. Sweet for Us.

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Hostile Takeovers, Kraft, Cadbury, Capitalism, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Most pertinent is the current unfriendly pursuit of sweet little Cadbury by those aggressive cheese movers, Kraft. Do you know how long it's been since a rapacious, unfriendly takeover has been mounted?

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Just Listen -- Obama's Education Speech to Children

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Obama Speech, Education, Mark Goulston, Education Reform, Barack Obama, Communism, President Obama, Blazing Saddles, Fearmonger, Right Wing, Capitalism, Town Hall Meetings, Living News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

Over and over again, we see the right wing steadfastly digging their heels in before gathering, listening to and evaluating all the facts regarding going to war, education and health reform.

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This Film is an Idiot's Version of Naomi Klein's Masterpiece

Johann Hari | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Debt, Depression, Salvador Allende, Naomi Klein, Mixed Economies, Apartheid, Conservatism, Michale Winterbottom, Capitalism, Pinochet, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Communism, Freedom Charter, Channel 4, Margaret Thatcher, Anc, Shock Doctrine, Cia, World Bank, Tianamen, Imf, Milton Friedman, Soviet Union, World News
Johann Hari

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.

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Madoff and Miracles: How I Lost My Life's Savings and a Poem Saved My Life

Kim Rosen | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Bernard Madoff, Money, Poems, Poetry, Life Savings, Lyrics, Prayer, Capitalism, Spirituality, Living News
Kim Rosen

Poetry is a direct route to the riches of the interior life. It is available to everyone at any hour of the day or night, and it doesn't cost a thing.

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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Bob Marley, Evil, Bubbles, Bill Gates, Architecture, Dick Cheney, Dollar, Greed, Empathy, John Lennon, Wall Street, Ayn Rand, Bible, Artists, Morality, The Fountainhead, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, Ethics, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism, Republican Party, Jimi Hendrix, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.

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Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" Trailer And Poster Released (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Posted 09.27.2009 | Home

Read More: New Michael Moore Movie, Moore Capitalism, Capitalism Poster, Michael Moore Trailer, Michael Moore Movie, Michael Moore, Capitalism, Capitalism: A Love Story, Home News

The poster for Michael Moore's upcoming movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story", has just been released. Moore has said of the film, which opens nationwide...

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Who Isn't John Galt?

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Empathy, Artists, Dick Cheney, Ayn Rand, Dollar, Ethics, Republican Party, Greed, Bob Marley, Bible, Architecture, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Evil, John Lennon, Human Rights, Wall Street, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Jimi Hendrix, Bubbles, Republicans, Entertainment News
Robbie Gennet

If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.

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China Concubines Return Thanks To Increasing Capitalism

The Independent | Clifford Coonan | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: China Capitalism, China Concubines, Chinese Businessmen, Chinese Economy, Mistresses in China, Mao Tse-Tung, Culture of Concubines, China Human Rights, China, Concubines, Modern Concubine, China's Concubines Make a Comeback, Capitalism, Chinese Concubines, Concubines in China, World News

From the Independent Mao Tse-tung tried to stamp the custom out as a relic of feudalism, but the return of capitalism to China has also meant a major...

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These Days It's Dimes That Are a Dime a Dozen

David Finkle | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York

Read More: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Manhattan Streets, Coins, Beatrix Potter, Socialism, Capitalism, Lost Money, John D. Rockefeller, Found Money, New York News
David Finkle

As an inveterate stooper-for-pennies, however, I've noticed a recent significant change on the streets of Manhattan. Yes, plenty of pennies are dropped. But just as often nowadays it's dimes that turn up on the pavement.

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TRAILER: My New Movie Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Morgan Stanley, Citizens Arrest, Goldman Sachs, Elizabeth Warren, Meltdown, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Movie, Housing Crisis, Trailer, Unemployment, Bailout, Michael Moore, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Stock Market, Wall Street, Bankruptcy, Bank of America, Credit Defaiult Swap, Aig, Sicko, Capitalism, Derivative, Merrill Lynch, Baron Hill, Henry Paulson, George W Bush, Marcy Kaptur, Capitalism: A Love Story, Business News
Michael Moore

It's a crime story. But it's also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it's also a love story. Only it's about an abusive relationship.

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China's Miracle Economy: Have the Chinese Become the World's Greatest Capitalists?

Ellen Brown | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Monopoly, Banking Crisis, Communism, Wall Street Bailout, Capitalism, China Economy, World News
Ellen Brown

To the extent that China's stimulus plan is working better than in the U.S. and the U.K., this seems to be because the government is using the banks for public ends, rather than allowing the banks to use the government for private ends.

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Premature Anti-Fascist

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Anti-Fascist, Free Market Capitalism, Capitalism, Bernard Knox, Dr. Hilkevitch, Chicago, Living News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

I first spied Dr. Hilkevitch on the corner of 51st and Woodlawn, at the bus stop for the #2, from Kenwood to downtown Chicago. It was 1989, my first year as a graduate student in clinical psychology at Northwestern.

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Dreamers

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Baby Boomers, Dreams, Dreaming, Democracy, Capitalism, Paradigm Shift, Utopia, Living News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

We shall live in a world of love and dream, a world of cornucopia and utopia. I dream therefore I am. I dare therefore I am. Where are you dreamers?

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Bullies Delight in Town Hall and Center

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Nazi Germany, Conscience, Bullying, Us-vs-Them, Town Hall Debate Reaction, Bullies, God, Capitalism, Jewish, Protesters, Ten Commandments, Ownership, Health Care Reform Protests, Town Hall, Nazis, Property Rights, Protests, Health Care Reform, Nazi, Town Hall Meetings, Christian, Naziism, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

We have witnessed a spate of violent bullying and psychological assault, moods of hostility and derision which have stooped to levels that defy any clear intention to act for the greater good.

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A Reflection on Ayn Rand and Consumer Protection

Jim Randel | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Subprime Mortage Crisis, Corporate Greed, Capitalism, Ayn Rand, Business News
Jim Randel

When corporations are doing what they should do -- maximize profits -- they have no vision for the consumer.

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