Posts Tagged ‘capitalism’

17 Jun
2010

Foreclosing on America: Edda Lopez vs. Bank of America

To all those who blame the hundreds of thousands of families facing foreclosure for their predicament and argue that big businesses like Bank of America should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want, in the spirit of “free market” capitalism and the American way, you need to meet Edda Lope

23 Apr
2010

Video Blog: How Else to Spend Goldman’s $5.5 Billion in Bonuses

What else could we do with $5.5 billion in bonuses Goldman Sachs is giving its employees for the first three months of

22 Apr
2010

Coddling Capitalism

As Americans, we buy a lot of crap, but we’ve finally stopped buying this lie. What’s good for big business is not good for America.

20 Apr
2010

Breaking Down Goldman Sachs and Financial Reform

Here’s Jon Stewart’s take on fraud charges filed against Goldman Sachs and conservative opposition to clearly much-needed financial regulation. Plus my video about Goldman Sachs’ “death bond” scheme

6 Apr
2010

Madoff On The Loose; Impostor In Prison

While as a country we keep pushing for tougher law-and-order treatment of individual crimes, massive and monstrous corporate crimes are routinely overlooked by our political system (which is now officially a wholly-owned subsidiary of corporate America).

19 Feb
2010

$500 Million Dollar Boat Vs. Ending World Poverty

If he has $500 million left over to spend on a one-time use boat to win a race — a boat so big and impractical that it can’t even fit under the Golden Gate Bridge — something is fundamentally wrong with our world and our economic system

28 Jan
2010

Beyond Band-Aids For Our Broken Economy

Our economic policy should not be a vision for today’s small entrepreneurs becoming tomorrow’s titans but, rather, small businesses forged in the mold of 1930s Farm Belt cooperatives

27 Jan
2010

Corporation Runs for Congress

Wal-Mart for Secretary of Labor! Enron for Secretary of Energy! Haliburton for Secretary of State!

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