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Fables of Wealth
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:32 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Our most destructive lie, he added, “is that it is very easy for any American to make money.” The lie goes on. The poor are lazy, stupid and evil. The rich are brilliant, courageous and good. They shower their beneficence upon the rest of us.
Solar power's next shining | Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice | McKinsey & Company
Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:52 PM EDT ()
Has the solar-power industry lapsed into a classic cycle of boom and bust after a decade of unprecedented growth? It might appear so. As years of government subsidies boosted the global installed capacity of solar-photovoltaic (PV) modules and dramatically cut prices, new produ …
A Dose Of Socialism Could Save Our States - State Sponsored, Single Payer Healthcare Would Bring In Business & Jobs
Seeded on Sat Apr 7, 2012 10:35 AM EDT (Forbes)
How often do we hear the argument that American business is suffering under the yoke of a healthcare system that places a huge responsibility on employers to carry the heavy load of insuring their employees? According to a Gallup Poll out this week, 48 percent of small busines …
Turning America into Pottersville
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:59 AM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
For many years, it appeared that the Right wanted to take the United States back to the 1950s -- when blacks "knew their place," women were "in the kitchen" and gays stayed "in the closet" -- but it turns out that the intended back-in-time-travel was to the 1920s, to an era of …
Is Private Equity Bad For the Economy?
Seeded on Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:53 PM EST (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)
Mitt Romney's private equity record is suddenly the talk of the GOP presidential contest. What do we know about the industry he helped to create?
ROBERT REICH: Here's What Happens To Countries That Stop Valuing The Public Good
Seeded on Thu Jan 5, 2012 7:10 AM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
Meryl Streep’s eery reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” brings to mind Thatcher’s most famous quip, “there is no such thing as ‘society.’” None of the dwindling herd of Republican candidates has quoted her yet bu …
The Freedom To Oppress: Why Ron Paul's Old Racist Newsletters Matter
Seeded on Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:12 AM EST (Crooks and Liars)
Let's face it -- Ron Paul's lame denials about his repulsively racist and homophobic newsletters of the '80s and '90s on CNN should permanently lay to rest everyone's favorite myth about the man, i.e., that he's a "straight shooter" and an "honest man". No he's not.
DEAR HOWARD SCHULTZ: If You Really Want To Save America, Why Don't You Give Starbucks Baristas A Raise?
Seeded on Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:51 PM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
In the late 1970s, our companies got fat, lazy, bloated, and less-profitable, and a generation of corporate raiders and Gordon Gekkos justifiably began restructuring them and making them more competitive.
JEREMY GRANTHAM: We're Headed For A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions
Seeded on Wed Dec 7, 2011 8:08 AM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
Summary of the Summary The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment.
Decline of American Exceptionalism - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:09 AM EST (The New York Times)
Is America exceptional among nations? Are we, as a country and a people and a culture, set apart and better than others? Are we, indeed, the “shining city upon a hill” that Ronald Reagan described? Are we “chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a mode …
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