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The Orphan Of The American Political Spectrum

Patrick Maines | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Market Capitalism, Liberals, Neoconservatives, Free Market, Libertarian, Social Issues, Libertarian Party, Free Markets, Free Market Ideology, Politics News
Patrick Maines

Were one to design a political philosophy calculated to appeal to large numbers of "conservatives" and "liberals," it might look very much like contemporary libertarianism.

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Wanted: Free-Market Mouthpieces

Rob Warmowski | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Economy, Heritage Foundation, Free Market Capitalism, Economics, Laissez-Faire, Public Relations, Economic Crisis, Free Market, Washington D.C., United States, Op-Ed, Newspaper Op-Eds, Business, Politics News
Rob Warmowski

For my entire adult life, I have watched free-market fundamentalists do their thing. They demonize government, run for government, capture government, then dismantle and privatize government.

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Bush: 'I Went Against My Free-Market Instincts'

George's Bottom Line | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Economic Policy, George Stephanopoulos, George W. Bush, Free-Market, Southern Methodist University, Politics News

"I went against my free-market instincts." That's what former President Bush said today in explaining why he signed off on the bailout for Wall Stree...

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The Proselytizers: Wall Street Executives and Televangelists

Judith Ellis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Democracy, Christianity, Goldman Sachs, Brian Griffiths, Free Market, Capitalism, Jesus Christ, Televangelists, LLyod C. Blankfein, Business News
Judith Ellis

Goldman Sachs executives are sounding more and more like televangelists who say things like "We are doing the work of the ministry" and "Give and it shall be given unto you."

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Lessons For US Economic Policy From The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Experiment, 1989, East Germany, Economy, West Germany, Regulation, Democracy, Capitalism, Fee Market Economy, Lessons From Fall of Berlin Wall, Lessons From Germany, Berlin Wall, Communism, Paul Samuelson, Economic Policy, Germany, Unification, Command Economy, Cold War, Socialism, Free Market, Fall of Berlin Wall, Berlin, Politics News

The abrupt and miserable end of the socialist experiment--it all happened so fast, with East Germany getting absorbed into West Germany on Oct. 3, 199...

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Individualism Run Amok

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Criticism, Success, Fame, Free-Market, Individualism, Fortune, Democracy, Self-Loathing, The Balanced Life, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I was surprised to read the other day that in some cultures if you are asked 'how are you?' the answer never begins with the pronoun 'I' but rather with a 'we' as in 'we are fine or not fine'.

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The Mystique of "Free-Market Guy" Obama

Jeff Cohen | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Market, Obama Business, Obama Free Market, Nafta, Obama Free Trade, Politics News
Jeff Cohen

Liberal activists need to be smart enough to see Obama for the status quo politician he is -- and to act accordingly.

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Measuring Measurements: Rising GDP in the Great Recession

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Statistics, Free Market, Harper's, Gdp, Ayn Rand, Economy, Economic Recession, Recession, Business News
Harry Moroz

It is so easy in our current political environment to forget that GDP, the unemployment rate, the income tax burden -- a whole slew of measurements -- are freighted with judgments.

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We Need Life Cycle Health Risk Insurance

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Risk Insurance, Free Market, Health Care Public Option, Private Health Insurance, Competiton in Health Care, President Obama, Politics News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

The trick in reforming the health insurance system lies not in taking away profits from insurance companies, but in changing the paradigm in such a way that their greed would guide them to provide better health care.

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Technology Rx for Health Care Reform

Gary Shapiro | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Ipod, Consumer-Electronics-Association, President Obama, Motorola, Intel, Gary Shapiro, Congress, Innovation, Best Buy, Competition, Apple, Living Wills, Hdtv, Texas Instruments, Free Market, Cea, Gdp, Technology, Health Care, Hp, Healthcare, Business News
Gary Shapiro

The consumer electronics industry is defined by rapid innovation and falling prices. Advocates on every side should consider these market-based lessons, as they are relevant to the current health care debate.

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It's Not a "Free Market" System When Taxpayers Are Financing the Profits

David Sirota | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Bernanke, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Free Market, Politics News
David Sirota

Obama praising banks for being "profitable in a free market system" is like him transferring $1 million into my bank account, then sending me a letter for having mustered the brilliance to earn $1 million.

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The Debate About Health Care Reform Is Not About Health Care

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama, Free Market, Health Insurance, Council of Economic Advisers, Government Regulations, Politics News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

It is about the underlying concepts of our political system. Do we want to stick to the concepts that made America strong and rich? Or do we want abandon them and experiment with new political concepts?

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From Death Panel to Death Spiral

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Obama, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Republican Party, Financial Collapse, Sex Scandals, Tarp, Town Hall Debate, Free Market Capitalism, Rush Limbaugh, GOP Debate, TARP Money, Healthcare Debate, Whig Party, Habeas Corpus, Obama Hitler, Medicare Bill, Bull-Moose-Party, Bill Oreilly, Religion and Politics, Religious Right, Glenn Beck, Free Market, Medicare, Mark Sanford Affair, Terry Schiavo, Republicans, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

The GOP is not the party of small government and lower taxes. They are the Party of borrow and spend, big government and sex scandals.

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10 Reasons Why People of Faith Should Support Healthcare Reform

Edward J. Murray | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, People of Faith & Health Care Reform, Health Care as a Human Right, Healthcare System, Free Market Capitalism, Obama Health Care Plan, Universal Healthcare, Obama Administration, Madoff Scandal, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Healthcare Insurance, Enron Scam, Enron Case, Bernard Madoff, Hilary Clinton Secretary of State, Free Market, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
Edward J. Murray

We must help the President and Congress do what we sent them to Washington to do: reform healthcare insurance coverage in the U.S. now. Even faith demands it. Doesn't it?

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Senator Baucus: "Uniquely American" Is Not an Answer

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Max Baucus, Free Market, Health Care, Working Life, Max Bacus, Single Payer Health Care, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

What industry has done more to deny our citizen the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

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Free-Market Conservatives Are Just Wrong

Dave Johnson | Posted 08.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs, Free Markets, Conservatives, Trade, Economy, Free Market Capitalism, Free-Market Conservatives, Free Market, Business News
Dave Johnson

Conservative free-market conservative ideologues manage to make a bad thing out of paying American workers good wages and benefits.

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Firefighting in the 1800's: A Corrupt, Bloated, Private For-Profit Industry

Tina Dupuy | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Firefighters, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Capitalism, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Socialism, Free Market, Health Care, Jim Demint, Hcr, Politics News
Tina Dupuy

Less government is not always good. The private sector is not always first-rate. And free market capitalism does not cure all.

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The "Loan Arrangers" Will Not Ride Again

Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Economy, Economic Crisis, Tarp, Theodore Roosevelt, New Deal, Woodrow Wilson, Barney Frank, Aig, Franklin Roosevelt, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Joseph Kennedy, Regulatory Reform, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Free Market, Wall Street Bonuses, Politics News
Rep. Barney Frank

We will prove that the best thing you can do for capitalism is to have rules that give investors the confidence to get back into the system, that protect the great majority of decent people from abuses.

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The Yes Men Fix The World One Prank at a Time

Liza Weisberg | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bhopal, Andy Bichlbaum, Biofuels, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, Hbo, Mike Bonanno, Exxon Mobil, HBO Documentaries, Free Market, Corporate Greed, The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix the World, Pranks, Entertainment News
Liza Weisberg

In their new HBO documentary The Yes Men Fix the World, the eponymous pranksters take aim at unapologetic free market profiteers.

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Health Care Reform is Very, Very Good to You

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Free Market, Health Insurance, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Health Care, Healthcare, Health, Politics News
Alan Rosenblatt

It is essential for government to play a role in health care. Market forces alone are simply not up to the task of ensuring good health for the nation while containing costs.

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Why Have We Abandoned Markets?

Michael Pento | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Crisis, Socialism, Free Market, Economy, Business News
Michael Pento

It astonishes me to see how quickly this country has embraced a socialist mentality and how readily it has accepted the belief that the source of our problems was an unfettered free market.

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Manufacturing and the Limits of Comparative Advantage

Ralph Gomory | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Global Economy, Economics, David Ricardo, Economic Crisis, Comparative Advantage, Free Trade, Globalization, Ralph Gomory, Business, Ralph-Gomory, Warren Buffet, Global Economic Crisis, US Economy, u.s. Economy Problems, Economic Policy, Jeffrey Immelt, Corporate America, Trade, Financial TImes, Business News, Ceo, Free Market, Fair Trade, Business News
Ralph Gomory

Vague talk about future innovations, a post-industrial society, or an explosion of services exports is not the stuff on which to bet the prosperity of a nation.

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An Ad Script for Teddy Kennedy on Healthcare Reform

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Advertisement, President Obama, Obama, Reform, Veterans, Issue Ad, Marketplace, Edward Kennedy, Uninsured, Insurance, Government Takeover, Government Run, Health Care, Bankruptcy, Kennedy, Public Option, Hospital Bed, Hospital, Democrat, Medicaid, Ad, Congress, Democrats, Teddy Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Competition, Script, Chris Weigant, Health, Health Insurance, Senator Kennedy, Medicare, Free Market, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

In the debate about healthcare reform, why are the loudest voices in the room the ones who seemingly are against all reform? Where are the champions ...

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Nobelist Krugman Attacks "Junk Economics"

Joseph Romm | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Economic Recovery, Global Warming, Paul Krugman, Free Market, Capitalism, Green News
Joseph Romm

The opponents of climate action believe in the limitless power of the free market to do everything -- everything, that is, except avoiding catastrophic global warming.

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How Teddy Roosevelt Ended Unfettered Football and Saved the Game

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business

Read More: College Football Hall of Fame, Regulations, Free Market, Capitalism, South Bend, Football, Teddy Roosevelt, Business News
Cenk Uygur

In order for capitalism to thrive -- like the other great American tradition, football -- it has to be regulated and sensible rules have to be put into place.

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