Capitalism

Source: networks.feedburner.com --- 2 days ago
The recent attacks on Barack Obama and Sarah Palin show a fundamental ignorance of how America works. The bottom line is that once Americans decide that they like someone, they don't like to change their mind. America decided that it liked Ronald Reagan, and no amount of liberal teeth-gnashing could dent Ronnie's Teflon popularity. America decided that it liked Bill Clinton, and even an unseemly sex scandal failed to derail his popularity. America likes Barack Obama. Even the Republicans have a hard time working up too much enthusiasm for attacking him, though they're getting up a pretty good head of steam. What's intriguing is that America seems to like Sarah Palin. It's only known her a week, but so far, it likes what it sees. If I were advising the campaigns, I'd avoid personal attacks on either of these two likeable candidates. Sigh, it's enough to make a political junkie pine for the Hillary Clinton/Rudy Giuliani race that might have been. Now THAT would have been something to see. ...

Source: networks.feedburner.com --- 4 days ago
Seth Godin highlights a great marketing idea in his latest post: What if your new rock group appeals to fans of the B52s? Or if your new book is just perfect for people who like Brad Meltzer? If you have a CD or a book or an idea that will appeal to a certain psychographic, it might not be so easy to reach just those people. Dave came up with a super idea: go buy a bunch of B52s CDs. Then list them (brand new!) for sale on Amazon and eBay. Price them ridiculously low, like a dollar. The only people who are going to buy a copy are focused fans. Then, when you ship out the CD, include your new CD in the box as well. You've reached exactly the right people (purchasers! who spent money! who are fans!) at exactly the right moment. Why not include two or three in the box? Fans know fans, and they like spreading the good stuff around. I love it. You're exploiting the targeted traffic available on eBay and Amazon to reach precisely the folks you want to target. Since they're designed to harvest value from sellers based on taking a slice of revenues, it's incredibly cheap marketing. I'd include samples and coupons. Better yet, automatically sign them up for an affiliate program! I'm reminded of the old story about the cowboy who led mule teams carrying bags of rocks through an enemy blockade. The puzzled soldiers would search the packs, then wave him on through. "What are you smuggling for the resistance," his friend asked. The cowboy just smil ...

Source: networks.feedburner.com --- 2 days ago
Every election since 1960 has gone to the candidate that was the superior on-camera performer. 1960: Kennedy over Nixon. 1964: Johnson over Goldwater 1968: Nixon over Humphrey 1972: Nixon over McGovern 1976: Carter over Ford 1980: Reagan over Carter 1984: Reagan over Mondale 1988: Bush over Dukakis 1992: Clinton over Bush 1996: Clinton over Dole 2000: Bush over Gore 2004: Bush over Kerry Barack Obama is clearly the best television performer in the race; will Palin's charisma be enough to offset it? History suggests that the answer is no. ...

Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 2 days ago
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Source: www.ft.com --- 1 day ago
Mikhail Fridman gathered all the know-how he has collected over 18 years as one of Russia's most aggressive investors for his biggest corporate battle yet - taking on... ...

Source: yaleglobal.yale.edu --- 1 day ago
Some Asians seek alternatives to Western-style Capitalism ...

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com --- 9 days ago
DENVER -- Well, it's no wonder that Democrats didn't want former President Bill Clinton to speak on the economy; some delegates might have had the temerity to ask: Hey, why did we experience all that prosperity in the '90s? It certainly wasn't because of populism or isolationism or more government dependency or any of the hard-left economic policies being preached nightly by speakers at the Democratic National Convention. No, it was Capitalism -- more of it, not less of it. ...

Source: www.nyu.edu --- 11 days ago
The Democratic National Convention began last night, providing a few high moments for the party faithful. But I got a few chuckles while catching up on my reading last night. Michael Moore tells the New York Daily News: "At this... ...

Source: blip.tv --- 1 day ago
QUESTION: Amory Lovins, of the Rocky Mountain Institute, wrote the book on energy efficiency and independence called Natural Capitalism. Who do you think read the book; Barack Obama, John McCain or 3rd party candidate Hippieman? Distributed by Tubemogul. ...

Source: blog.wfmu.org --- 12 days ago
Capitalism takes a trip on the NYC subway, thanks to the Creative Capitalism crew (the force behind Lo Moda / Low Moda, some fantastic art books, and other cool music releases including Ponytail). Thanks to Peter for passing this along! ...

Source: lauraflanders.firedoglake.com --- 4 days ago
Tonight on GRITtv, a roundtable on global Capitalism and what the current crisis means with Naomi Klein, Jeff Madrick, and Bhairavi Desai. Ethan Canin talks about his new novel America America with David Rosen Editor in Chief of the Progressive Book Club. And videos from the American News Project and Pangea Day. Watch the full show here. ...

Source: www.scrappleface.com --- 5 days ago
THIS IS NOT SATIRE. ScrappleFace editor-in-chief Scott Ott interviews “a guy named Tom” in the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport who explains the difference between conservatives and liberals in economic terms with the classic Yankees-Red Sox analogy. Download audio file (RNC08-2.mp3) Download mp3 File[5.3 MB] Your Donation Fuels Family-Friendly Satire ...

Source: knowledge.insead.edu --- 7 days ago
China's emerging economy is an enormous success story and it’s remarkable, say two INSEAD professors, because it's really one big experiment. In their book, The Future Of Chinese Capitalism, Gordon Redding and Michael Witt say that different parts of China are trying different things to find the best formula. "China does not have a grand plan for developing itself. It's very conscious that it's running the society as a series of experiments," Redding says. ...

Source: todaysfinancialnews.disqus.com --- 14 days ago
Jonah Goldberg argues that in large measure our wealth isn’t the product of Capitalism, it is Capitalism. ...

Source: www.indybay.org --- 8 days ago
..... To criticize excess packaging of products, employees demonstrate in minimal packaging -- wearing aprons which cover the front of one's body, while leaving backside bare. .... ...

Source: www.telegram.com --- 7 days ago
America doesn't need an election this year so much as a resurrection from the dead. Twenty-seven years of Capitalism without brakes has proven that the more mercenary a society becomes, the more sadistic, anti-human and unlivable it grows. ...

Source: blogs.denverpost.com --- 7 days ago
Re: “In Denver, the end of Capitalism,” Aug. 28 David Harsanyi column. Harsanyi propagates the misinformed view that Capitalism somehow implies lack of governmental regulation. The term for what he espouses is “market anarchism,” an extreme form of laissez-faire economics that does not recognize the need for governmental regulation of the economy. Indeed it is the dismantling, or the lack of enforcement, of necessary governmental regulations over the last seven years that has led to the current state of our economy. With no regulations, there is nothing to stop companies from pushing products that hurt the public (e.g., FDA approval of a number of drugs in the past seven years) or real estate companies from embarking on a feeding frenzy on the gullible public. Some argue that they deserved what they got, but it is all of us who paid for the bailing out of Bear Stearns and Freddie Mac (and more to come). Capitalism does not exist in the absence of appropriate governmental controls. Without enforcement of these regulations, who knows, someday the oil companies might get together to exploit oil prices so that they can all make record profits. Oh, wait … . Sukumar Vijayaraghavan , Denver Bravo for David Harsanyi’s column. The Democrats evade the truth of how the wealth they expropriate is created. They hijack the word “investment” to justify the legalized stealing of earned income to pay for their “solutions.” To the Democrats who wan ...

Source: www.modbee.com --- 9 days ago
As the applause for the athletes dies down, many of us know of someone recently returned from participating in the Olympic spectacle. They all comment on the lack of Western food, the police state, racism and hard-sell tactics of the merchants; all are common laments of traveling in a developing country. ...

Source: www.workers.org --- 5 days ago
The labor of the workers has created the wealth that has been invested and reinvested over and over again to create the plants, the offices, the mines, the hospitals, etc. Having created all this property, workers should have a property right to their jobs. In simpler terms, workers have “sweat equity” in their jobs and in the workplace as well. ...