http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/capitalism/ en-us Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:41:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049857/posts ...Fan and Fred also couldn't prosper for as long as they have without the support of the political left, both in Congress and the intellectual class. This includes Mr. Frank and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) on Capitol Hill, as well as Mr. Krugman and the Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein in the press. Their claim is that the companies are essential for homeownership. Yet as studies have shown, about half of the implicit taxpayer subsidy for Fan and Fred is pocketed by shareholders and management. According to the Federal Reserve, the half that goes to homeowners adds up to a... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049857/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:41:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048938/posts Diabetes strikes harder at those who were poor as children, according to a new 30-year study. Participants who were disadvantaged in youth were more likely to develop diabetes than better-off peers were during the 34-year time frame of the study. "Our study, among others, shows a strong, persistent effect of childhood socioeconomic position on the development of diabetes in adulthood, even after taking later-life socioeconomic position into account," said Siobhan Maty, an epidemiologist at the Portland State University School of Community Health in Oregon. Researchers examined health records and studies from 1965 to 1999 of about 5,900 people. Of the... stltoday.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048938/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:45:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047787/posts At a town hall meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said that rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, had the "most extreme" record in the Senate. Kansas City Star reporter Dave Helling later asked McCain about that comment. "Extreme?" Helling asked. "You really think he's an extremist? I mean, he's clearly a liberal." "That's his voting record," responded McCain. "All I said was his voting record, and that is more to the left than the announced Socialist in the United States Senate, Bernie Sanders of Vermont." Asked Helling: "Do you think he's a socialist, Barack Obama?" "I don't... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047787/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:04:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047003/posts The collection of ne'er do wells, clueless dolts, political hacks, and oh, let's just be blunt and call them what they are -- total Idiots -- expands into an ever larger circle. While the Republic burns due to the unsavory combination of incompetence, ideological rigidity, and crony capitalism, the fools and assclowns seem ever more determined to avoid any personal responsibility for the damages they have wrought. Instead, they flail about blindly, blaming everything and everyone -- except their own horrific negligence. This is financial incompetence writ on a scale far grander than anything seen for centuries. As a nation,... Seeking Alpha http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047003/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:28:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046348/posts The collection of ne’er do wells, clueless dolts, political hacks, and oh, let’s just be blunt and call them what they are — total Idiots — expands into an ever larger circle. While the Republic burns due to the unsavory combination of incompetence, ideological rigidity, and crony capitalism, the fools and assclowns seem ever more determined to avoid any personal responsibility for the damages they have wrought. Instead, they flail about blindly, blaming everything and everyone — except their own horrific negligence. This is financial incompetence writ on a scale grander than anything seen for centuries. As a nation, our... commentary from Barry at The Big Picture http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046348/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:48:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042588/posts Home > Post Your Opinion > Archives > 2008 > July > 07 > Entry Does Limbaugh deserve $50 million a year? By Post Staff | Monday, July 7, 2008, 03:13 PM Palm Beach Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042588/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:24:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042143/posts In 30 years, I have provided this hotel and our guests with over a million orders. One million, two hundred. I have seen a lot of people that I have seen on television. Some use alias names, but I can look on the sheet and know exactly who they are. It's kind of cute because they don't realize you really know who they are. You go along with it. You'd be amazed. You get the guests that really admire their pets. One wanted caviar, and she wanted my waiter to actually hand-feed it to the feline when we were upstairs.... The Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042143/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:50:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037653/posts Considering the many jubilant boasts by "flat world" devotees in recent years, you might have been tempted to regard economic globalization as a juggernaut, powered by inexorable forces of technology and history. Big mistake. There's no preordained direction for the world economy--only an undetermined future that will take the shape of whatever ideas and policies we choose to uphold. The lack of an intellectual defense of capitalism has left free markets vulnerable. "The power of the state is reasserting itself," said Daniel Yergin, co-author of The Commanding Heights and a free-market optimist , in The Wall Street Journal recently. In... Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037653/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:34:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032674/posts Overpaid, arrogant, terminally ignorant, malignant scumbags rule the earth thanks to the ascension to the pinnacle of power of corporations; whose global stronghold remains the United States of Manufactured Imbecility. The world in which we live is so mediated by waste capital, so compromised in terms of quality-of-life, that most people have forgotten there are alternatives. These alternatives take the form of community gardening, they take the form of resistance to institutional culture and to the rampant militarising of everything. Industrial farming, for example, continues not because it is more productive, but because it has been able, until now, to... The Canadian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032674/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:53:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032437/posts Bush may have done a service to us all. The eight years gave us lay offs and unemployment not seen since the great depresion, wars and attrocities commited in the name of advancing american multi corporate agenda and white Christianity, we saw the rich get richer and the poor become even more poor, we heard slogans such as jobless recovery, strategery, modern economy, trickledown effect Ad nauseum. The values of Bush are the values of the capitalist system, another word for fascism. the eight years of Bush proves capitalism is a failed system. We see more debt, unemployment and 100... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032437/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:25:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030571/posts Speaking on Wall Street last night, Senator McCain of Arizona sounded more like an economic populist than a proponent of the kind of unbridled free-market capitalism promoted by many who work on the trading floors nearby. At a town hall meeting in Federal Hall, the presumptive Republican nominee for president endorsed a federal probe into speculation in the oil markets, a phenomenon that some analysts contend accounts for about a third of the escalating cost of crude. "I believe there needs to be a thorough and complete investigation of speculators to find out whether speculation has been going on and,... NY Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030571/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:28:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030255/posts HAVANA: For Miladis Bouza, the global food crisis arrived two decades ago. Now, her efforts to climb out of it could serve as a model for people around the world struggling to feed their families. Bouza was a research biologist, living a solidly middle-class existence, when the collapse of the Soviet Union — and the halt of its subsidized food shipments to Cuba — effectively cut her government salary to US$3 a month. Suddenly, a trip to the grocery store was out of reach. So she quit her job, and under a program championed by then-Defense Minister Raul Castro, asked... International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030255/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:45:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029853/posts I'm sure that you have had this experience before, or something similar to it. You are sitting at lunch in a nice restaurant or perhaps a hotel. Waiters are coming and going. The food is fantastic. The conversation about all things is going well. You talk about the weather, music, movies, health, trivialities in the news, kids, and so on. But then the topic turns to economics, and things change. Ludwig von Mises Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029853/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:48:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029655/posts July 4th is America’s Independence Day, yet we are grossly dependant on foreign oil because the “Environmentally Ill” say that oil harvesting is a danger to wildlife. However, other countries drill for oil and it’s apparently OK for us to purchase and consume their “blood” oil. Unless American wildlife and habitats are superior, then isn't it all the same? If habitats are being harmed because of drilling, why not keep it close to home, so we can monitor, lobby, legislate and otherwise regulate it to death. Oh... sorry, we already to that. But at least the United States ... Inspired by Rush Limbaugh's "Enough is Enough" monologue. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029655/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:24:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2028439/posts In an attempt to further tarnish the reputation of the Bush Administration and Republicans in general...the liberal media ended the weekend with all sorts of stories citing the ::Cue the dramatic music please:: HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT SPIKE (in what would seem to have been the history of the free world)...or the last 3 1/2 years. These articles can be seen here, here,here, *sigh* here, and here, just to name a few. All these articles state the high-unemployment rates at the end of this last month and democrats across the country, including presumptive democratic nominee BarryO criticizing the Bush Administration...there's a shocker.... Right Up Front http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2028439/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:23:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028258/posts Despite being the finest people in the world, we Americans have a very short attention span – and even a shorter memory. We continuously have to complain, with the aid of cheap politicians, about “excessive” corporate profits. When we see someone making more money than we think they “deserve,” we are distraught and call for the government to “control” these profits. In essence, we forget about the massive good that a minimally regulated market has done to our quality of life, and point to these “unnecessary” profits to justify our skepticism about capitalism and appeal for increased government intervention. Oh... North Star Writers Group http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028258/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 12:36:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025879/posts Dead lodgepole pines turned into products from pellet fuel to pens. millions of beetle- kill pines in the nearby hills and mountains could explode into a fire ... But locals also realize that using the wood for beetle-kill products is just a start - and not a silver bullet. "There's little stuff going on, but not near what we need," ... But, still, he's grateful. "Small steps lead to big trips," ... Dead and dying lodgepole acreage in Colorado has grown to 1.5 million since the first signs of the mountain pine beetle outbreak in 1996... homes, property and lives... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025879/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:01:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2025586/posts It is not physically possible to show that ANY Global Warming law will have ANY effect on the climate. We will lose millions of jobs to India and China, where they don't buy this liberal hoax. Pure and simple, this is a tax to try to stop the sun from heating the earth. God help us. The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2025586/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:43:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020698/posts Exxon Mobil, the world's largest corporation, is much criticized for raking in huge profits and polluting the environment, but could the epitome of Big Oil some day become an endangered species? Oil experts say yes, the day of the freewheeling and powerful corporate enterprise that finds the oil, pumps it out and delivers it to customers around the world may be slowly coming to an end. The reason: Most of the world's oil fields are now owned by countries with state oil monopolies that either prohibit foreign investment or no longer require the expertise of big, integrated oil companies to... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020698/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 14:36:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019054/posts Oil prices continue to rise and rise, with no end in sight. Virtually all other commodities seem to be following to be the same suit. Some now say a new economic system is emerging from the ashes of the old and now crumbling financial structure. Failing to meet even the basic needs of the common man, the current economic system is facing its worst crisis and appears in doldrums. It has miserably failed the underprivileged of this world. Markets appear divorced from the fundamentals. F. William Engdahl strongly says in a recent write up that the oil markets (and other... arabnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019054/posts#comment Wed, 21 May 2008 06:41:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017833/posts The Grandiose Socialist Scheme Written by Bridget Geegan Blanton Europe is in midst of a period of enlightenment ... .... as reflected by recent election results where voters revolted against the shackles of Socialism. They’re throwing the Socialists out of office along with their burdensome multicultural policies. The European economy is quickly being run into the ground due to excessive entitlements and a Third World Immigration that guarantees welfare without the requirement of assimilation. Once again, Socialism has proven to be unsustainable in the long term. While an increasing amount of economies throughout the world are embracing Capitalism, America is... National Writers Syndicate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017833/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 23:39:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014796/posts Money doesn’t buy happiness, but success does. Capitalism, moored in values of hard work, honesty, and fairness, is key. On July 23, 2000, a forty-two-year-old forklift operator in Corbin, Kentucky, named Mack Metcalf was working a 12-hour nightshift. On his last break, he halfheartedly checked the Sunday paper for the winning Kentucky lottery numbers. He didn’t expect to be a winner, of course—but hey, you never know. Mack Metcalf’s ticket, it turned out, was the winner of the $65 million Powerball jackpot, and it changed his life forever. What did he do first? He quit his job. “I clocked out... The American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014796/posts#comment Mon, 12 May 2008 14:59:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013289/posts PARIS, France – Nicolas Sarkozy, the America-loving conservative, may be the new president, but he has some work to do changing the culture of a country largely in love with socialism. The front door of the European news bureau of the state-owned Radio France displays a bumper sticker reading "Capitalism … the social disease." Recently, WND correspondent Franklin Raff visited the impressive edifice of Radio France, located at the Maison de la Radio, a round building situated in the center of Paris. (Story continues below) All radio stations were nationalized when Nazi Germany invaded... (snip) When France was liberated by... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013289/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 22:45:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008837/posts Banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions could find their investment strategies curtailed by the Federal Reserve to reduce the risk to the economy from asset bubbles, the US Treasury said on Tuesday. David Nason, the assistant secretary for financial institutions, said the US central bank should use its proposed new powers as a stability regulator to “lean against the wind” by forcing institutions to change their investment strategy if it judged they threatened the wider economy. Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008837/posts#comment Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:34:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008357/posts Senator, concerning the criteria by which you will nominate judges, you said: "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old." Such sensitivities might serve an admirable legislator, but what have they to do with judging? Should a judge side with whichever party in a controversy stirs his or her empathy? Is such personalization of the judicial function inimical to the rule of law? • Voting against the confirmation of Chief... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008357/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:23:39 GMT