They are the free marketeers, those who advocate that corporations should be free-to- cheat-and-harm and-do-whatever-the-hell-they- want. They are t...
In the United States, where bankers continue to rule the Obama administration's economic team, the idea of government teaming up with business to drive long-term innovation and growth is still struggling to gain attention.
When you write a book called The End of the Free Market, you can be pretty sure what the first question is going to be: "Do you really believe we're seeing the end of the free market? Really?"
The debate between Libertarians and the economic Left should have ended after the spectacular collapse of the deregulated financial sector.
The links between protecting the environment and improving our nation's health are clear; environmental issues are health issues. Take, for example, the problem the U.S. faces with asthma.
I'm so convinced that the private market will make everything better that I think we should do it across the board. Let's start with firecare. Why should I pay for firecare services for people who are dumb enough to start fires?
Republicans desperately oppose this clearly socialistic health care reform proposal, but have avoided presenting a free-market based solution, which actually could solve our crisis.
Breaking News: This is not free market capitalism's finest hour.
While the phrase "The End of the Free Market" may capture public anxiety in America today, Bremmer should have called his book "The End of State Capitalism"—he bets that free markets will win the "war" with statists.
I have news for all the free market Republicans and Libertarians, it is a tax if we don't add 18% to the cost of pizza and soda, and not a tax if we do.
As Obama's first year in office wraps we have to wonder how he squandered such a great opportunity to produce real "change," the theme that inspired his campaign.
Really when freedom is invoked by the GOP it means liberty for corporations. It's big government getting out of the way so big business can step up.
While important I refuse to call this meeting a "summit," since Democratic and Republican politicians squabbling simply does not reach the heights of two nuclear powers tensely sitting down to talk about missiles.
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."
An article by Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer in the February 15 issue of Newsweek makes a compelling, well-researched case that layoffs and downsi...
Rather than defending the outsized paychecks of Dimon, Blankfein, and the rest of Wall Street as part of the free market system, the President needs to demand that Wall Street help homeowners on Main Street.
Obama has made his share of blunders. But his statement that we "don't begrudge" the high salaries on Wall Street is about the dumbest thing he's ever said.
By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger On Feb. 1, President Barack Obama unveiled his 2011 budget proposal. While conservative pundits reacted with ...
Raj Patel, food activist, scholar, and author of two important books: Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and his new boo...
Far from sounding the bells of freedom, the Supreme Court has further imperiled government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
The central pillar of this narrative is the idea that the recession was no one's fault. These things just happen. No one was "personally" responsible.
"Invisible Hands" is about how they were able to grow their ranks over time, so that today business interests are able to exercise immense power regardless of which political party is in the White House.
Given what has happened to our economy in the last decade, it's hard to believe that any of the "freshwater," "efficient market" economists still have jobs, much less, credibility in how the economy actually works.
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'.
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.
