Today's populist rage could regenerate America -- if Obama handles it right.
By Gary Kamiya Mar 24, 2009
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If Obama gives us universal healthcare, will we become better people?
By Andrew Leonard
July 20, 2009
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The swine flu scare was just the latest example of why an economic theory that mixes subsidization, consolidation and deregulation endangers us all.
By David Sirota
May 9, 2009
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A new poll shows that only a small majority of people think capitalism is better than socialism.
By Alex Koppelman
April 9, 2009
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The media says Americans have the economic blues. But we're meeting these down times the way we always have: Not with resignation but with grit, compassion and humor.
By Richard Rodriguez
February 13, 2009
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Social justice, wealth redistribution, a new morality for Wall Street -- the pontiff throws down on capitalism
By Andrew Leonard
July 8, 2009
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The Reagan/Thatcher model of unregulated markets now looks "as outdated as revolutionary socialism" declares the Financial Times' Martin Wolf. Them's fighting words!
By Andrew Leonard
March 11, 2009
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What bailout? The Dow drops 740 as a financial panic sweeps the world.
By Andrew Leonard
October 6, 2008
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A reflection on current affairs
By Andrew Leonard
September 18, 2008
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Before it was bought by Belgium's InBev, Budweiser trampled local breweries across this land. Who's crying in their (piss) beer now?
By Edward McClelland
July 17, 2008
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Eclipsed by the ascendancy of Milton Friedman, laissez-faire's most determined antagonist is back in fashion.
By Andrew Leonard
March 27, 2008
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A "lost decade" for stocks? The "high water mark" of financial deregulation? Who pulled the trigger?
By Andrew Leonard
March 26, 2008
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The presidential candidate just can't resist dragging the holiest Republican values through the mud
By Andrew Leonard
February 5, 2008
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I love being a grad student stripper but I'm worried about fallout from family and professors.
By Cary Tennis
February 4, 2008
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Call it Capitalism 2.0: Microsoft's founder and Wal-Mart's CEO say there's got to be a better way.
By Andrew Leonard
January 24, 2008
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"Luther and Suleyman": An economist feeds the Ottoman Empire into his calculator and "proves" a historical hypothesis.
By Andrew Leonard
July 2, 2007
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Former Sandinista revolutionary Ortega is back on top in Nicaragua. Will his alliance with Venezuela -- complete with subsidized oil -- be a model for the rest of Central America?
By Lydia Chávez
February 8, 2007
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I could jump ship, but it doesn't quite feel right.
By Cary Tennis
January 16, 2007
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McDonald's fries on Park Place? The horror?
By Andrew Leonard
September 12, 2006
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His biographer recalls how the late economist warned JFK about Vietnam -- and faulted conservative policies for worsening inequality in America.
By Richard Parker
May 1, 2006
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Is it already time for the way new economy? Chapter 1 of a new science fiction novella by Cory Doctorow.
By Cory Doctorow
September 12, 2005
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Is this the "new golden age of global capitalism"? The Economist thinks so -- and ignores the facts.
By James K. Galbraith
March 22, 2004
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Capitalism's crown jewel: The Iraq contract.
By Arianna Huffington
April 23, 2003
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Did employee stock ownership drive the airline into bankruptcy?
By Farhad Manjoo
December 12, 2002
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Young anarchists with guts of steel raid dumpsters for edible "trash." The idea? Divert waste to end wastefulness.
By Laurie Essig
June 10, 2002
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