Category Archives: CAPITALISM

Can We Stop the Charade and Just Cut To The Chase: THE U.S. IS HEADED FOR A DEPRESSION

Posted on Friday, August 26, 2011 by meganwilson

With a nod to Third Voice (for those who remember it) … but without the cool interface CIO! = burgundy (a step up from red) GDP: U.S. Economy Grows Only 1 Percent In Spring, Increasing Recession Fears by Christopher S. … Continue reading →

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Rick Perry’s and Wall Street’s Scheme to Profit from Teacher Deaths

Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011 by meganwilson

All they (Perry’s administration) had to do was convince retirees to let UBS buy life insurance policies on them. When the retirees died, those policies would pay out benefits to Wall Street speculators, and the state, supposedly, would get paid … Continue reading →

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SOLUTIONS: Why Taxing the Rich Is Good for America

Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by meganwilson

We could never post enough articles on this topic … By Loren Berlin Daily Finance Last week, Warren Buffett wrote an incredible opinion piece in The New York Times asking the federal government to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, … Continue reading →

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All Work and No Pay: The dirty secret of the jobless recovery

Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by meganwilson

YOU: doing more with less. CORPORATE PROFITS: up 22 percent. By Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery Mother Jones Also read harrowing first-person tales of overwork and 12 charts on just how much is being demanded of American workers. On a … Continue reading →

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WORD!

Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by meganwilson

U.S. Corporations are looking to and investing in new markets outside of the United States. That doesn’t just mean they’ve moved the manufacturing outside of the U.S.; it means they no longer see the U.S. as the primary market they’re … Continue reading →

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Kellogg Asks Mayan Group To Reconsider Toucan Sam-Like Logo

Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by meganwilson

SAN FRANCISCO — Kellogg Co. is asking a group working to defend Mayan culture to reconsider its logo, saying consumers can confuse it with Toucan Sam, the mascot of its Froot Loops cereal. An attorney for the world’s largest cereal … Continue reading →

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Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery

Posted on Monday, August 22, 2011 by meganwilson

What political leaders around the globe and the mainstream media are failing to acknowledge is that all of these riots are related – they are the result of the glaring and undeniable inequity of power and resources that has been … Continue reading →

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Capitalism’s Failure …

Posted on Saturday, August 20, 2011 by meganwilson

A year ago I wrote the following on this blog: Where on earth do the folks who are predicting that the economy is not going to slip into a deeper recession/depression get the crack they’re smoking? Where do they think … Continue reading →

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21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor

Posted on Monday, July 25, 2011 by meganwilson

In the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profit. By Rania Khalek AlterNet There is one group of American workers so disenfranchised that corporations are able to get away with … Continue reading →

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Vicious Cycles: Why Washington is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse

Posted on Monday, July 25, 2011 by meganwilson

By Robert Reich We now live in parallel universes. One universe is the one in which most Americans live. In it, almost 15 million people are unemployed, wages are declining (adjusted for inflation), and home values are still falling. The … Continue reading →

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