Capitalism

Jennifer on HuffPo: Evil Karl Rove Behind Sweden’s Political Persecution of Assange. Havana (AP) — Cuban President Raul Castro told legislators Saturday that the future of the country’s revolution is at stake as the government tr…

I'm counting down the days until Christmas. This is not due to excitement over gifts but being anxious to get rid of endlessly repeated commercials like the Tassimo Brewbot . This commercial, I'm sure, is being run nationwide about every fifteen m…

Moody's downgraded Ireland's Credit Rating five notches and said more downgrades could come if the country didn't figure out how to deal with all its Debt. [WSJ] If Ron Paul proceeds to hector the pants off Ben Bernanke in his new role as congr…

The titans of American industry were all assembled at the White House complex Wednesday. There was Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. There was Kenneth Chenault, the chairman of American Express. And there was Barack Obama, the sometimes owner of …

Jim Manzi has a very smart article up in National Review on 'unbundling' the Welfare State. Essentially, Manzi believes that the welfare state, however inimical to many conservative ends, cannot simply be razed and replaced. It is ingrained into s…

A little more reaction. We constantly hear about how the US doesn’t manufacture anything anymore.  That is just not true.  Manufacturing output prior to the Recession was at an all time high. It is true that manufacturing employmen…

While many people falsely believe the bigness of Big Government to be a product of Social Services run amok, and "welfare" madness, in fact the programs which run up the biggest bills are the ones serving the interests of the rich. After all, the …

The reason our economy is continuing to fail more and more Americans at an alarming level is as simple as an understanding of Adam Smith that is lost on Neo-Liberal globalists. The solutions are as simple and I have said them repeatedly as fa…