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Where's the Presidential Debate on GM's Crony Capitalism?
2016-04-01 08:01:32| Automakers - Topix.net
In the 1950s, General Motors President Charles Wilson famously said: "What was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." You might do a double take on that comment after you venture a look at GM's current remarkably low tax bill.
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FCC Lays Ground for Crony Capitalism
2015-11-18 07:29:36| Wireless - Topix.net
During the fourth Republican debate, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina correctly noted that "big government has created a big business called politics. And there are lots of people invested in the status quo of that big business called politics."
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Capitalism isnt dead; it can become a force for good in society
2015-11-05 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The capitalist model is under attack on all sides. Yet while there is appetite for change, not even the Occupy movement has come up with a coherent, alternative model. So can capitalism be reformed to operate in the service of society? At Oxfam, where I was chief executive for 12 years, we believed that the private sector has the ability to help people out of poverty, for example through the creation of jobs or by purchasing products from farmers at a fair price. However, I also saw more than...
Bolivia: Capitalism must be 'destroyed' to solve climate change
2015-10-13 15:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Bolivia has called for an end to capitalism in order to tackle climate change, warning the economic system is leading humanity towards "a horizon of destruction that sentences nature and life itself to death". The socialist country yesterday submitted its national climate action plan to the United Nations, which all nations have been asked to prepare ahead of global talks in Paris that begin next month. Bolivia steered away from setting an economy-wide carbon reduction goal and instead pledged...
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Whole Foods' John Mackey: Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism
2015-08-12 23:38:23| Grocery - Topix.net
"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 kind of kept down."
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