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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

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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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

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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10 Reasons Why People of Faith Should Support Healthcare Reform

Edward J. Murray | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

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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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

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

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Capitalism's Future And The 50 People Who Will Frame The Debate

Financial Times | Steven Bernard, Jeremy Lemer and FT Reporters | Posted 04.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Free Market Capitalism, Future of Capitalism, Economy, Economic Crisis, Capitalism Future, Credit Crisis, Capitalism, Disaster Capitalism, Credit Crunch, Business News

The credit crisis has placed the global financial system under almost unprecedented strain. Tackling the many problems and charting a course throug...

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Obama's Economic Paradox: Can You Have "Bailout" and "Stimulus" at the Same Time?

Randall Amster | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

Perhaps the centerpiece of the current bill (at least for people's pockets in the short-term) is an actual weekly paycheck bump to the tune of about eight bucks.

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The Disloyal Opposition: Rush is Right -- Obama Must Fail

Randall Amster | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Limbaugh Obama Fail, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Limbaugh Obama Fails, Rush Obama Fail, Rush Limbaugh, Free Market Capitalism, Race, Bill O'Reilly, Liberalism, Founding Fathers, Multiculturalism, Barack Obama, Satire, Political Humor, Political Satire, Humor Politics, Humor and Satire, Anarchist, Politics News

If the new President brings closure to current wars and staves off economic collapse, it quite possibly will once and for all bury the neocon legacy deep in the dustbin of history.

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Capitalism & the Capitalists

Edward J. Murray | Posted 12.27.2008 | 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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Can The Free Market System Be Saved?

Marilyn Barrett | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Oversight, Financial Crisis, Free Market Capitalism, Regulations, Wall Street Crisis, Business News

Our current crisis is also in part due to the ADD of our political and business leaders who failed to acknowledge the growing problems brought by deregulation.

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Why The Government Can't "Fix" the Crisis

Danny Schechter | Posted 11.25.2008 | 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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