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Are You Grateful Or Just Greedy?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Greed, Inspiration, The Inner Life, Gratitude, Aspiration, Positive Thinking, Russell Bishop, Living News

The underlying premise to the value of holding a positive focus on a positive outcome contains two basic fundamentals: (1) energy follows thought and (2) the universe rewards action, not thought.

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Why Aren't We All in This Together?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Greed, Altruism, Living News

This is a country where the haves help the have-nots. But the massive holdouts in the House vote show that the last thirty years of reactionary policies have weakened the altruism of America.

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From Wall Street to Neverland: The Year America Didn't Sleep

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Greed, Sleeplessness, Wall Street Crash, War on Terror, Britney Spears, Afghanistan, San Diego, Economy, Propofol, Economic Crisis, Neverland, Workaholics, Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson Neverland, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, US Economy, Sleep-Machismo, Cobra, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Insomnia, Machismo, Corporate Greed, Iraq, Heath Ledger, Health Care, National Sleep Foundation, Sleep, Living News

The public health burden of insomnia on the US is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars. While we routinely cut calories, or cram in exercise, sleep has not even entered the conversational lexicon.

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Latino Families' Fight for Banking Reform

Janet Murguía | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Debt, Weak Oversight, Auto Dealers, Job Loss, NCLR's Wealth-Building Policy Project, Nclr, Damaging Payday Loans, Cycles of Debt, Deceptive Lending Practices, Declaw Legislation, Wall Street Bailouts, Latino Families, Accountable, Janis Bowdler, Great Recession, Enforcement, Foreclosure, Housing Counselors, Mortgage Brokers, Small-Dollar Lenders, Greed, High-Rate Credit Cards, Oversight, Devastating Consequences, Innovative Financial Products, Limited Accountability, Economic Turmoil, Subprime Loans, Toxic Mortgages, Protections, Deception, Access to Credit, Product Vendors, Positive Innovations, Banking Reform, Politics News

One of the most devastating consequences of today's economic turmoil is the large-scale loss of nearly a generation of wealth among Latino homeowners.

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Why Keep Geithner?

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Greed, Wall Street Bailout, Dylan Ratigan, Bailout Bandits, Financial Corruption, Bailout, Tim Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Business News

The current custodian of America's wealth, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is not doing a good job. The time for corrective action is now.

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Crash the Bankers' Party in Chicago

Anna Burger | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Greed, Anna Burger, Wall Street, Bailout, Seiu, Chicago, Banks, Financial Regulation, Business News

If you could get all the architects of the Wall Street scam together in one place, what would you say to them? They'll all be in Chicago this weekend -- and we're headed there to meet them.

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Frank Rich: Goldman Can Spare You A Dime

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers, Economy, Barney Frank, Jobless, Regulation, Obama, Reform, Lloyd Blankfein, Frank Rich, Unemployment Rate, Goldman Sachs, White House, Jobless Rate, Bailout, Treasury, Blankfein, Wall Street, Health Care, Greed, Sec, Depression, Senate Finance Committee, Derivatives, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Goldman, Recession, Financial Services Committee, Health Care Reform, Bonuses, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

As leader of the Wall Street pack, Goldman declared surging profits, keeping it on track to dispense a record $23 billion in bonuses for 2009. But mos...

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Pardon the Interruption, But...

Steven Weber | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Greed, Wall Street, American Greed, Economic Crisis, Corporate Greed, Animal Farm, Business News

America is itself a living example of greed-fueled inefficiency, reflected in its regressive attitudes, unrestrained profiteering and unceasing ignorance of its own mortality.

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Cigna, Stephen Hemsley, Edward Hanway, Health Care for American Now, Hcan, Angela Braly, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Insurance Industry, Profits, Max Baucus, Wellpoint, Karen Ignagni, Ahip, America's Health Insurance Plans, Michael McCallister, Rose Ann DeMoro, California Nurses Association, Richard Kirsch, Nancy Ann DeParle, Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Kent Conrad, Blanche Lincoln, Politics News

After pretending for months to cooperate with the Obama administration and Democrats to secure a reasonable health reform bill, the industry's CEOs and lobbyists on Sunday double-crossed their one-time political allies.

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The Shiny Storefront on a Hill

Steven Weber | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Corporate Greed, Capitalism, Corporations, Politics News

What is so wrong with the things we always depended on to lead a healthy existence in our democratic society?

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The Radical Philosopher: Reflections on Gandhi's 140th Birthday

Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Greed, Gandhi, Nonviolence, Consumerism, Nuclear Weapons, Global Economy, War, Violence, India, World News

Were he alive today, I have no doubt Gandhi would be utterly appalled at the direction the world and his own country India have taken.

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Sin Map: 7 Deadly Sins Mapped Across U.S.

Wired | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Kansas State, Greed, Maps, Sloth, West Coast, More Gluttonous, Bible Belt, The South, Lazier, Map of Sins, Lust, Sinful, Gluttony, Envy, More Prideful, 7 Deadly Sins, East Coast, More Envious, Sin Map, Pride, The North, Living News

"...A team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust)."...

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ReThink Review: Capitalism: A Love Story -- A Must-See Subversion

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

An excoriating critique of America's economic ideology, Capitalism may go down as one of the most timely and subversive films in movie history

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Worried About Money

Ryan Mack | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Ignorance, Greed, Self-Righteousness, America, Money, Worry, Poem, Poetry, Comedy News

I woke up early...worried about money. / I think I'm losing my home. / Just text me when you need me. / I just got the new IPhone.

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How Did Europe Respond to the Lehman Collapse?

Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Greed, Economic Stimulus Package, Wall Street, Bonus Outrage, Ragulatory Reforms, US Regulation, Federal Reserve, Lehman Collapse, European Central Bank, World News

In a strange way, the U.S. was better prepared to manage the collapse of Lehman Brothers than Europe, namely because it was happening within a single country.

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Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story Will Find a Ready Audience

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Greed, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Financial Crisis, Movie, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Capitalism: A Love Story, Capitalism Movie, Business News

Moore is questioning whether the whole incentive structure, moral values, and political economy of American capitalism are fit for human beings.

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Americans Have Been Taken Hostage

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Greed, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout Bandits, Dylan Ratigan, Financial Corruption, Bailout, Business News

We must demand that our politicians stop serving those whose business models are based on systemic theft and start serving those who seek to create value for others.

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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Bob Marley, Evil, Bubbles, Bill Gates, Architecture, Dick Cheney, Dollar, Greed, Empathy, John Lennon, Wall Street, Ayn Rand, Bible, Artists, Morality, The Fountainhead, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, Ethics, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism, Republican Party, Jimi Hendrix, Politics News

To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.

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Who Isn't John Galt?

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Empathy, Artists, Dick Cheney, Ayn Rand, Dollar, Ethics, Republican Party, Greed, Bob Marley, Bible, Architecture, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Evil, John Lennon, Human Rights, Wall Street, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Jimi Hendrix, Bubbles, Republicans, Entertainment News

If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.

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Where Are the Customers' Yachts?

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Greed, Executive Compensation, World Financial Crisis, Corporate Culture, Wall Street Compensation, Business News

Many in the financial sector still are not doing anything curative about the gaping flaws in culture and values in their enterprises. Apparently, they think this is just fine.

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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

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

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Goldman Sachs Buys Atlantic Ocean

Tom Gregory | Posted 08.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Economic Satire, Greed, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Satire, Nyse, Economy, Economic Crisis, Tarp, Comedy News

Revisionist historian Jim Cramer proclaimed that he told everyone this was going to happen -- "The Times" could find no evidence of his claim.

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Goldman Sacks and Plunders

Diane Francis | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Greed, Bankruptcies, Lehman Brothers, Bailouts, Henry Paulson, Aig, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson Wall Street, Tarp, Financial Meltdown, Bush, Business News

Goldman Sachs cannot argue that the proceeds it received from the AIG rescue did not constitute an indirect bailout any more than can auto parts makers who are saved by Detroit's bailout.

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From Climate Science to Climate Justice: Climate Change a Symptom of Man's Inhumanity to Man

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 08.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, G-8, Law, Greed, Carbon Emissions, United Nations, Ireland, Globalization, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Mary Robinson, Human Rights, Climate Justice, Green Technology, Recession Fears, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Seattle, Green News

The salient and problematic underlying political reality is that it climate change the culmination of longstanding processes of colonization and realpolitik.

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Gross, Bond King: Greed Will Soon Return To Wall St.

Reuters | Jennifer Ablan | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Finanical-Crisis, Greed, Pimco, Corporate Greed, Bill Gross, Consumers, Wall Street, New York-New York, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Gross, the influential investor who runs top bond fund Pimco, said on Wednesday that greed will eventually become the norm a...

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