Showing posts with label capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capitalism. Show all posts

Adam B. Summers: Killing The Golden Goose Of Capitalism

Be careful what you wish for.   The financial world, and quite a few employees, were taken aback recently when Wal-Mart announced that it will be closing 269 of its 11,600 stores, including 154 in the U.S., although it still plans to open 300 stores worldwide in the coming year. Oakland officials “expressed shock” at Wal-Mart’s decision, according    ... MORE

Capitalism: The Worst System -- Except For All The Rest

by Noel S. Williams.         The only capital democrat presidential candidates respect is political capital wrought from pandering. Newsflash: capitalism is still the best system for organizing economic life in a free society. Liberals talk about the anger of the right, but Clinton, the very embodiment of ugliness and anger, could barely bring herself    ... MORE

Capitalism Loves The Earth But The Greens Hate Capitalism

by Stephen Hicks.    Some parts of the world really are environmental Hells. They are dirty and depleted, making them unhealthy and economically unsustainable. We can argue about the severity of the problems in various places, but I want to focus on another aspect of the debate: determining accurately the causes of the degradation    ... MORE

Benevolence Of Capitalism Vs Paternalism Of Welfare State

by Richard M. Ebeling.       We live in an era in which few can even conceive of a world without the welfare state. Who would care for the old? How would people provide for their medical needs? What would happen to the disadvantaged and needy that fell upon hard times? In fact, there were free market solutions and non-government answers to these     ... MORE

VIDEO: The Dawn Of Capitalism

Janet Yellen Fights The Tide Of Falling Interest

by Keith Weiner.     On Wednesday Dec 16, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announced that the Fed was raising the federal funds rate by 25 basis points. Let’s get one thing out of the way. This is not a move towards free markets. Whether the Fed sets interest lower, or whether it sets interest higher, we still have central planning. We still have price ... MORE

Make Economic Freedom America's New Year's Resolution

by Veronique de Rugy.    It's Christmas time again, and with it come the dreams of better times. Families struggling with the consequences of the most recent recession will be happy to know that there is a simple way to improve their lives and keep or make more money in the process. It's called economic freedom, and the United States used to be very  ... MORE

Scott Shackford: The Middle Class Is Shrinking!

Because They’re Getting Rich!   Success is seen as a disaster when you care more about income inequality than mobility. "The American Middle Class is Losing Ground," is the title of Pew Research Center's new report on income inequality. That headline informed the headlines that other media outlets have settled on as well. The Los Angeles  ... MORE

Tim Worstall: Capitalism Will Help The Absolutely Poor

The rising tide that lifts all ships.  There’s a tendency for people to think that this greed for filthy lucre that capitalism harnesses so well won’t in fact help those who are absolutely poor. Because those absolutely poor, defined as living on less than $1.90 a day, don’t have much money. So, how and or why would anyone exploit them in order to   ... MORE

Absence Of Capitalism Is Environment's Worst Nightmare

by Kerry Jackson.      The solutions to global warming — in fact, to all environmental problems, real and perceived — are always antithetical to capitalism. To many who thrill to the global warming scare, capitalism is the cause of climate change. But those who think they would like the environment better without capitalism should try exactly that.   ... MORE

Debi Ghate: The Moral Meaning Behind Thanksgiving

Thank yourself too.       Ah, Thanksgiving. To most of us, the word conjures up images of turkey dinner, pumpkin pie and watching football with family and friends. It kicks off the holiday season and is the biggest shopping weekend of the year. We’re taught that Thanksgiving came about when pilgrims gave thanks to God for a bountiful harvest.       ... MORE

What Climate Alarmists Want: 'A World Without Capitalism'

Investor's Business Daily editorial.   Climate Change: Researchers from developed nations who insist that humans are warming the planet have inadvertently given Third World nations a weapon to shake down capitalist nations. Or was that the plan all along? Third World nations haven't developed their economies because their governments  ... MORE

Nick Gillespie: Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey explains.   "Intellectuals have always disdained commerce," says Whole Foods Market co-founder John Mackey. They "have always sided with the aristocrats to maintain a society where the businesspeople were kept down." Having helped create the global grocery chain intellectuals arguably like best,       ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Market Cure For Health Care

Crony Socialism: Government Bailouts Do Not Save Jobs

by Doug Reich.      [Back in 2012,] in a bizarre harangue delivered to the DNC delegates, ex-Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm hysterically chanted that hundreds of thousands of jobs were “saved” by the federal government’s bailout of General Motors.  According to her, these jobs were “saved” thanks only to the largess of the Dear Leader and   ... MORE

Ira Stoll: A Warning About The Politics Of Crowds

The tactics of Trump, Sanders and the Pope.    The voice I find myself missing this political season is that of Fouad Ajami, who died last year. Not so much for Ajami’s insights into the area that was his academic speciality, the Middle East, though one certainly wishes for his thoughts on the Islamic State, the humanitarian disaster that is Syria, and   ... MORE