Free Market Ideology

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Echoes of a Distant Crash

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Public Option, Black Tuesday, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Franklin Roosevelt, Tva, Free Market Ideology, Conservative Economics, Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Politics News

Eighty years ago this week, an enormous sound emanated from lower Manhattan and began to spread in waves across the nation and, eventually, the world.

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How to Think

Terrance Heath | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ignorance, Far Right, President Obama, Right Wing, Conservatism, Barack Obama, Education, Critical Thinking, Intelligence, Obama Speech, Conservatives, Obama Education, Anti-Intellectualism, Republican Party, Free Market Ideology, Republicans, Politics News

One of our political parties now embraces that what one believes is more important than what one knows, and is where critical thought has been banished and"facts" are founded in belief.

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Not Yet Endangered: The Big-Bellied, Tiny-Brained, Common American Sap/Sucker

Philip Slater | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Bailout, Free Market Ideology, Financial Crisis, Economy, Politics News

The common American Sap/Sucker is such a fervent believer in free market ideology that he tends to trust implicitly anyone who espouses the same doctrine.

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The Lure of Keynesianism

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Free Market, Economy, Robert Reich, Money, Keynes, Socialism, Capitalism, Free Market Ideology, Keynesian Economics, Business News

The way out of our crisis is to limit further the influence of government over the economy, so that even if someone could afford to buy political influence, there would be very little to sell.

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Obama's Herculean Challenge

Rob Kall | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

Obama will fail if he tries anything "inside the box." The only way he's going to pull us out of this multifaceted manure pile is by being open to big bold ideas and then taking Herculean steps.

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McCain's Education Plan is Scary as Hell

Dan Brown | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Reforming America's inadequate public school system--a crucial priority for our country's future-- should not be undertaken with a failed ideology. Th...

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"Free Market?" R.I.P. and Good Riddance!

Warren Goldstein | Posted 11.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Economic Crisis, Free Marketeers, Financial Crisis, Bailout Plan, Free Market, Free Market Ideology, Wall Street, Laissez-Faire, Business News

Not only are there no "free markets" on Wall Street--there never have been. There have only been institutions and markets receiving varying degrees of protection from the mass of American citizens.

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