Greed

Wrecking Ball: Springsteen's Populist Vision of America

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Greed, Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball, Wrecking Ball, Financial Inequality, Main Street, Occupy Wall Street, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen New Album, E Street Band, The Pogues, Reinventing Businesses, Bruce Springsteen, Culture News

Shuttered businesses and jobs shipped overseas are a cold reality for the people inhabiting Wrecking Ball.

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What Money Can't Buy: The Skyboxification of American Life

Michael Sandel | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Greed, Michael Sandel, Markets, Income Inequality, Commerce, American Greed, Commercialism, Consumption, Inequality, Politics News

At a time of rising inequality, the marketization of everything means that people of affluence and people of modest means lead increasingly separate lives. You might call it the skyboxification of American life. It's not good for democracy, nor is it a satisfying way to live.

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All Is Fair in Love, Not Lottery

Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Greed, McDonald's, Lottery, Lawsuit, Lottery Winners, Mega Millions, Money Greed, American Greed, Human Impulse, Human Behavior, Emotional Intelligence, The Greed, Healthy Living News

Something strange happens when a loved one dies and it's time to distribute the estate. No matter how close people are, money has the ability to widen wedges and force family members apart. Regardless of how those assets are distributed, someone will inevitably feel slighted.

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How the $640,000,000 Might Have Ruined Your Life

William Rose | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Greed, Lottery, Homelessness, Values, Money, Mega Millions Jackpot, Happiness, George Mason University, Mega Millions, Mega Millions Winner, Classism, Class Warfare, College News

That's just the thing about winning the lottery: winning it makes you rich, not wealthy. There is no more honor in luck than there is happiness in money.

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Smith and Lesson

Denise Bowyer | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Greed, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Accountability, Greg Smith, Business News

Now is the time to support companies that create a culture that honors the contract between Main Street and Wall Street.

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Generosity or Greed -- It's a Matter of Choice

Judith Johnson | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Generosity, Greed, Sasha Dichter, American Greed, The Highest Good, Corporate Greed, Oneness, INSIDE OUT, Caring, The Golden Rule, Nipun Mehta, Compassion, Outside In, Happiness, Mindfulness, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News

When we look outward instead of inward, it is easy to become disconnected from a deep sense of the relevance of our being and our connection to one another.

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At Last, Some Decency on Wall Street

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.14.2012

Clearly people comfortable in the Washington-Wall Street axis have no sense of shame. They know all too well what Goldman and the other financial swindlers have been up to, causing so much misery for tens of millions throughout the world.

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Lent Vs. Greed

Thomas Worcester | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Greed, Wealth, Wall Street, Alms, Fasting, Prayer, Seven Deadly Sins, Lent, Religion News

For Christians, fasting suggests imitation of the Jesus who fasted for 40 days in the desert. It may mean solidarity with the hungry.

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Dilemmas Of A Muslim Shopper

Daliah Merzaban | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Zakat, Charity, Greed, Islam, The Balanced Life, Overconsumption, Selfishness, Donating to Charity, Consumer Spending, Sadaqah, Muslim Shopper, Religion News

While the wealth we accumulate is a grace from God, it is also a test to see how we will manage, distribute and respect it.

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No Rags, No Riches -- Finding a Fiscal Policy That Makes Sense

Curtis Roosevelt | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Angela Merkel, Herbert Hoover, Fdr, Davos, Austerity, Greed, Economic Reform, Capitalism, Politics News

Is Capitalism at fault, a flawed economic system? No. The problem is the way people use the free market, a system that readily responds to the compulsive appetite of greed. Without government imposed regulations we run amok.

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Why the Republicans' View of 'Success' Is a Path to Self-Destruction

Douglas LaBier | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Success, Greed, Politics, Newt Gingrich, 2012 Election, Republicans, Republican Party, Mitt Romney 2012, Republican Party Platform, Politics News

The Republican Party appears wedded to a singular view of what "success" in life is -- a vision that is increasingly disconnected from emerging new realities. It is exclusionary, anti-inclusive, and opposed to serving the common good.

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What Next, Occupy? Revise Gordon Gekko

Carla Seaquist | Posted 02.22.2012

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With the encampments folding or forcibly shut down -- for reasons of public health or winter weather -- and with eulogies already appearing, what next for the earthquake known as Occupy Wall Street?

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Tax the Rich! In Fact, Let's Double Their Taxes

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Greed, Liberty, Kevin Drum, Self-Reliance, Freedom, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Paul Krugman, Occupy, Taxation, 1%, Taxes, Conservatives, Business News

Double the top tax rate! It's time for those who have benefited from our system to pull their own weight again. Or as politicians used to say but don't seem to anymore, "From whom much is given, much is expected."

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No Black Friday

Laura Munson | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Greed, Small Business, Consumerism, Local Economy, Black Friday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Community, Local Businesses, Holiday Shopping, No Black Friday, Mindfulness, Say No to Black Friday, Healthy Living News

This holiday season, I want us to stop. I want us to continue the gratitude of the day before. I want us to sleep in and maybe take a walk into town later to see what the local shops have for sale. Even if it costs a bit more.

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The Super Committee Punts, and the Odds Are Stacked Against Small Business

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Lloyd Chapman, Greed, Debt, Deficit, Small Business Administration, Congress, Small Business, Corporations, Supercommittee, Jobs, Sba, American Small Business League, Campaign Finance Reform, Small Business America, Super Committee, Small Business News

What's it going to take for small businesses to finally have a voice in Washington?

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Why It's OK To Be A Selfish Giver

Suzanne Skees | Posted 01.16.2012

The world reverberates with crashing economies and toppling dictatorships from Detroit to Italy, Egypt to Syria; and one vital outcome of these change...

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California Refuses to Accept Obama's Banking Sellout

Robert Scheer | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Robert Scheer, Government, Law, Greed, California, Clinton, Economy, Banks, Sec, Obama, Robert Rubin, Wall Street, Citigroup, Politics News

Forget relying on the federal government to hold the Wall Street swindlers accountable. Indeed, the Obama administration has been involved in negotiating a deal with state attorneys general to settle their complaints with the banks for a pittance of compensation for the victims.

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Too Big

Carolita Johnson | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Debt, Greed, Cartoons, Oscarina, Humor, Carolita Johnson, Occupy Wall Street, Too Big to Fail, Banks, Jobs, Comedy News

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Don King Argues With Protester at Occupy Wall Street

Jeffrey Campagna | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Debt, Don King, Poverty, Occupy Wall Street, Racism, Zuccotti Park, Barack Obama, Video, Politics News

Last night, Wall Street's occupiers received one of their more eccentric celebrity visitors, flamboyant boxing promoter Don King. King meandered thro...

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Blame Wall Street, Not Boomers

Leonard Steinhorn | Posted 12.07.2011

We like to think that our economic woes are unique to our time, that ours is the first era in which our democracy seems broken. What we need is a little perspective. And a little understanding of who's responsible.

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What Do They Want? Justice

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Greed, Wall Street, Money, Economy, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Media, Journalism, Politics News

One need not be religiously doctrinaire to recognize this as a "come to Jesus moment" when the money-changers stand exposed and the victims of their avarice are at long last offered succor.

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Is It Best to Buy or Borrow Books?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.28.2011

Now stepping into the ring: buying books vs. using a library! That bout might never make pay-per-view, but it's a contest often on the minds of avid readers.

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Restore Faith In The Markets

Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Greed, Dodd Frank, Quadrogesimo Anno, Pius Xl, Religion and Finance, Religion and Politics, Dodd Financial Reform Bill, Economic Crisis, Financial Reform, Faith and Finance, Religion News

Re-establishing a stable and transparent foundation, restoring trust and redirecting the focus of financial institutions to fulfill their social purposes will not happen through the legislative process alone.

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Debunking the "Greedy Players" Myth

Hank Koebler | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Greed, Loans, Money, Finances, Football, Careers, Ncaa, Nfl, Lockout, Personal Finance, NFL Lockout, Sports News

Throughout the course of the NFL's lockout, fans took to labeling NFL players as greedy and overpaid. Such labels are unfair. Like any other urban legend, the myth that NFL athletes are overpaid can easily be refuted with basic research.

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Sorry Elizabeth, Wall Street Said No

Robert Scheer | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Robert Scheer, Greed, Timothy Geithner, Congress, Dodd-Frank, Bush, Money, Elizabeth Warren, Clinton, Obama, Democrats, Bailout, Barack Obama, Banks, Financial Crisis, Gop, Wall Street, Republicans, Business News

Obama's refusal to take the fight to Senate Republicans by nominating Elizabeth Warren should be taken as the vital measure of the man. This gutless decision comes after the president populated his administration with the very people who created the financial meltdown.

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