Entries (RSS)Archive for 'Economy'
Data Isn’t Free
If you wake up one day to find your favorite sites like YouTube or Facebook blocked, don’t blame your local dictator — at least, not yet. Instead, blame capitalism. Or better yet, blame yourselves!
Posted by eatbees on 27 Apr 2009 at 14:58 under Culture, Economy, Media.
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Financial Crisis = Criminal Fraud?
We are living through the consequences of a deliberate, coordinated, and ultimately criminal fraud involving mortgage lenders, investment banks and rating agencies, all of whom conspired to make huge profits by repackaging worthless loans as safe, secure investements.
Posted by eatbees on 18 Apr 2009 at 05:03 under Economy, Politics.
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Time to Choose: Us or Them?
President Obama, we hired you to make sweeping changes, not to be a servant of the status quo. Yet on the economic crisis in particular, you seem to be a prisoner of a complacent, self-serving orthodoxy that is preventing you from doing what needs to be done.
Posted by eatbees on 22 Mar 2009 at 18:28 under Economy, Politics.
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Behind the Crisis
If we’re going to learn anything from the economic crisis we’re in, we need to make sure that the same elites aren’t in power coming out of it that got us into it to begin with.
Posted by eatbees on 18 Mar 2009 at 20:26 under Economy, Politics.
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Inequality and the Global Crisis
We need to admit that it may be impossible to return to the magical days of easy growth and abundant resources. What if this is a crisis of scarcity? What if much of what we’ve called wealth for the last fifty years was illusory? Even the best policies will never rebuild what we had, if our way of life was unsustainable in the first place.
Posted by eatbees on 12 Mar 2009 at 17:48 under Anarchy, Economy, Politics.
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Amazing World
“When I read things like, ‘The foundations of capitalism are shattering,’ I’m like, ‘Maybe we need that.’ Because we live in an amazing, amazing world and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots that just don’t care.”
Posted by eatbees on 19 Feb 2009 at 15:37 under Culture, Economy, Media.
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