http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/capitalism/ en-us Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:26:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2422348/posts Books for the Arsenal of Ordered Liberty Posted by Hunter Bakeron Monday, January 4, 2010 As we begin the New Year, I find myself thinking about books that fill the conservative armamentarium for resisting the left-liberal onslaught on the past handful of years. I’ve omitted some categories, like military and foreign policy, because they are outside my areas of expertise and don’t apply as much to the Acton mission, anyway. Here are my recommendations:Economics:Common Sense Economics by James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, and Dwight Lee — Dr. Gwartney taught the first economics class I ever took as a university student and... Action Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2422348/posts#comment Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:26:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418879/posts On the last day of 2009, that awful year, I was listening to a report on National Public Radio (yes, I’m a listener). Reporter Tamara Keith presented a by-now-familiar recap of the worst financial and corporate scandals of the decade, from Enron and Martha Stewart to Tyco and Bernie Madoff. It was a depressing slog of greed, venality, and theft. When the report was over, Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep summarized the report with a tart: “The decade in capitalism.” I don’t want to single out Inskeep, since he was doing what pretty much the entire media establishment has done,... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418879/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 11:11:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418568/posts The 2010 Economy Will Boom Thanks To Free-Market Capitalism Larry Kudlow Dec. 31, 2009, 10:20 AM Despite the historic expansion of the federal government’s involvement in, intervention in, and control of the economy -- including Bailout Nation; takeovers of banks, car companies, insurance firms, Fannie, Freddie, AIG, GM, Chrysler, and GMAC; large-scale tax threats; overregulation; an attempted takeover of the health-care sector; ultra-easy money; a declining dollar; and unprecedented spending and debt creation -- despite all the things that would be expected to destroy the economy -- all this socialism lite and the degrading of incentives and rewards for success... The Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418568/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416771/posts Since I began radio broadcasting 27 years ago, I have tried to come up with ideas for New Year's resolutions for myself and my listeners. Virtually each time, I have advocated one resolution in particular: For every couple of letters of complaint or oral complaints we communicate about someone or about some company, we should write a letter or make a call to commend someone or some company. Did you complain about an airline or about a flight attendant in the past year? No problem. But if you have never cited an airline or a flight attendant for stellar performance,... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416771/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:11:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414516/posts Shares of Ford Motor Co. hit their highest price in more than four years as the broader market rose Tuesday. Shares of the Dearborn, Mich.-based automaker traded as high as $9.88 in Tuesday's session, their highest price since October 2005. Shares recently traded up 18 cents at $9.85. Ford shares have nearly quadrupled in value in the year to date as the company rolled out new products like the Ford Fusion midsize sedan, cut costs and managed to avoid government aid and bankruptcy protection unlike its crosstown rivals General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC. Assoicated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414516/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:21:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412227/posts The Great Debate Oddly Is Not OverWe are still in a great public debate between capitalism and socialism, and individual freedom versus statism — odd since hundreds of millions worldwide have escaped poverty the last 30 years due to the spread of Western-inspired free markets.Many choose sides in the debate based on their own predicaments. Sometimes the more independent and secure who have thrived under capitalism promote it, the more dependent who have not - detest it.At other times the realist mind is opposed to the idealist.  And we can also envision the split as an age-old dichotomy between the... pajamasmedia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412227/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:22:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410773/posts The North Face has made good on its threat to sue The South Butt. The international apparel maker filed a federal lawsuit in St. Louis late last week alleging trademark infringement by The South Butt, a Ladue, Mo.-based company started by a teenager making fun of The North Face name. For now, The South Butt isn't backing down. The St. Louis Post-Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410773/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:46:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410569/posts Bolivian President Evo Morales, addressing climate delegates in Copenhagen, suggested a world referendum on climate change, and stated: “The real cause of climate change is the capitalist system. If we want to save the earth then we must end that economic model. Capitalism wants to address climate change with carbon markets. We denounce those markets and the countries which [promote them]. It’s time to stop making money from the disgrace that they have perpetrated.” Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410569/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:25:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409350/posts Madman Hugo Chavez in Copenhagen goes after Capitalism calling it a ghost running thought the streets, and then says Obama won the Nobel Prize the same day as he sent 30k troops off to kill innocent people (Video) hotairpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409350/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:33:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409342/posts THE Copenhagen climate summit was pretty much summed up in the high-level segment yesterday when Penny Wong's speech was interrupted by whistles and chanting and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got a standing ovation. President Chavez brought the house down. When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships” he got a rousing round of applause. When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409342/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:08:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407038/posts Watching the Senate press last week toward passage of President Obama's universal health care, my Red Alert is forced to contemplate whether a socialist agenda is intending to bankrupt the United States with trillion-dollar social-welfare programs there is no way the country will ever be able to afford. In "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," I clearly established that Barack Obama is trained in the Saul Alinsky "Rules for Radicals" methodology of lying to voters to disguise a true intent to transfer wealth from the "haves" to the "have nots." But as we watch President Obama... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407038/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:38:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406483/posts Maybe it’s the smoke from Mt. Vesuvius that keeps Arianna Huffington and the financial community from seeing that the economic collapse has nothing to do with the Fed "missing" the warning signs leading up to the October meltdown. “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” John F. Kennedy The Fed didn’t miss anything; the October meltdown was an inside job. Capitalism never made senseProfessor Ebeling, the Ludwig von Mises professor of Economics at Hillsdale College, understood something was wrong when he wrote: "the perverse development and evolution of historical capitalism, the institutions necessary for a truly free-market economy... The Market Oracle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406483/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:59:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405653/posts Metro link, Southern California's commuter rail for the Greater Los Angeles areas is in tough times in this recession, unfortunately, they are controlled by unionized taxpayer funded liberals. Just like other liberals, they don't learn a damn thing. In every scenario where funding is down and profits are low, they do the worst thing. In this case, raising rates. All while the worst recession in 70 years is taking place. Metro links problems are largely connected to the economy. With people out of work or earning less, they are not able to afford tickets to commute to LA, San Bernardino... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405653/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:11:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405295/posts Bill Gates is known as the world’s most successful capitalist and is less famous for being the world’s biggest philanthropist. Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405295/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:02:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405128/posts Canada’s Macleans news site recently published an article titled “Darwin movie too evolved for U.S. audiences”. The article refers to the decision of US film distributors to “pass” on the film “Creation”—the dramatized story of Charles Darwin’s struggle while writing the Origin of Species. The refusal to distribute a film premiered and acclaimed at the Toronto Film Festival seems to have again roused the Canadian media’s scorn of the “backward Americans” of which—according to Gallup—only 39% believe Darwin and his evolutionary theory. It is interesting how very differently the Canadian and world media treated America during WW II when far... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405128/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:40:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405054/posts <p>It certainly is a remarkable speech. Under Immelt’s eight years at the helm, General Electric has lost almost two-thirds of its value. Earlier this year, GE was on the verge of a total meltdown. So was GE’s “leadership” to blame?</p> WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405054/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:27:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404732/posts The financial reform bill working its way through the House of Representatives, that includes Ron Paul's "Audit the Fed" provision, has gotten so morphed and horrific that Ron Paul is not even going to vote for it. The evil bastards have added an amendment to the Bill that will allow the Fed to pump any amounts of money it so chooses to "financial holding" companies deemed TBTF, without approval from anyone. William Greider explains: The sales pitch for financial-reform legislation pending in the House claims it would put a stop to “too big to fail” bailouts for the leading banks.... Economic Policy Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404732/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:25:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401285/posts The trouble with the current administration is that they believe their ideas are the solution to our problems; what they fail to realize is that the American people are the solution.After years of solutions from the left, too many Americans have lost the grit and determination of past generations. They have become a collection of "have nots". Some no longer feel the sting associated with dependency in adulthood and easily buy into the hope and change fraud of government solutions to their predicaments. Our recent financial woes have made productive people, the "haves", weary and worried about a future with... Enterprise Record Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401285/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 01:47:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2397386/posts Socialism 1522. Would you tell us the view your Church takes of socialism? Socialism is a very broad term which men interpret in many different ways. Communistic socialism is, of course, condemned by the Catholic Church. Mitigated forms of socialism, which aim at social reform, but which ignore religion and rely upon purely materialistic methods, are also condemned. In these and similar senses of the word no Catholic can be a socialist. The Catholic program is social reform which demands true consideration of the workers by employers according to the demands of both justice and Christian charity, at the same... Celledoor.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2397386/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:47:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2396186/posts The Church and Capitalism 1480. Why does the Catholic Church defend the capitalist and attack the worker? She does not do these things. The Catholic Church defends law and order, and human rights. She is ever ready to denounce injustice, whether of the government, or of any private individual. If a wealthy Catholic did not pay just wages, and were seriously defrauding his employees, the Catholic Church would be the first to condemn such conduct, and warn him that, if he continued in such conduct, he would risk eternal damnation. On the other hand, if an employee accepted good wages,... Celledoor.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2396186/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:10:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395083/posts On several occasions during my 10 days in China, I've been told that there are 70 million members of the Chinese Communist Party. And yet it's nearly impossible to find an orthodox Marxist in Beijing. When you stand in Tiananmen Square and look toward the Forbidden City, you see a huge portrait of Mao flanked by slogans. The slogans used to say things like "Long Live Marxism-Leninism." Today, they're simply nationalistic: "Long Live the People's Republic of China!" While class struggle and common ownership of property may have motivated the revolution, Mao's heirs are more interested in outcomes than process.... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395083/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:18:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395068/posts Tune in - is a repeat - but well worth it. Discussing Freddie Mac / Fannie Mae - banks / investment banks - all that went on under Clinton - and how Saul Alinsky prescribed just what has occurred - in order to destroy Capitalism.... Cspan 2 - Interview - on Book TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395068/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:38:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2394978/posts Feast and football. That’s what many of us think about at Thanksgiving. Most people identify the origin of the holiday with the Pilgrims’ first bountiful harvest. But few understand how the Pilgrims actually solved their chronic food shortages. Many people believe that after suffering through a severe winter, the Pilgrims’ food shortages were resolved the following spring when the Native Americans taught them to plant corn and a Thanksgiving celebration resulted. In fact, the pilgrims continued to face chronic food shortages for three years until the harvest of 1623. Bad weather or lack of farming knowledge did not cause the... The Independant Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2394978/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:57:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394886/posts Did you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative? William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept. The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered serious losses.... FreedomKeys.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394886/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:56:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394659/posts Reading Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, an account of the voyage of the Pilgrims and the settling of Plymouth Colony, what strikes me most is not simply the extraordinary suffering of those who made the crossing, or how close to failure the entire venture teetered for years, or even the author's recounting of the first celebration we've since dubbed Thanksgiving. What leaps out from the pages of the history, probably because it's so little a part of the common narrative of the Pilgrims, is a crucial decision by the colony's governor, William Bradford, to change the fundamental organization of Plymouth's economy, a... RealClearMarkets http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394659/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:42:11 GMT