The backlash against the Obama campaign ad attacking Bain Capital raises important issues on how risk and failure are part of our American economic fabric. While the Obama campaign ad seeks to demonize Bain Capital and its founder Mitt Romney,...
Is it time to reassess whether capitalism is an ethical, morally-proper economic system?
I. Road to Freedom, Road to Serfdom
On Tuesday, NPR's Steve Inskeep spoke with the president of the American Enterprise Institute Arthur C. Brooks regarding...
The peaceful event, called Blockupy, in a nod to the Occupy movement, was the culmination of four days of demonstrations and drew about 20,000 protesters.
There is no contradiction between delivering high returns to investors and addressing society's most pressing unmet needs
Capitalism is the greatest engine for prosperity the world has ever seen and part of its success lies in its capacity to...
On May 14, 2012, MarketWatch featured an interesting article written by Jason O'Mahony discussing the possibility of a new economic model for the world. The heading to the article stated that "picking either unregulated capitalism or stifling...
The Henry Jackson Initiative for Inclusive Capitalism has called on companies to reward shareholders for making long-term investments and to change the way executives are paid.
Is there a connection between recent rhetoric discussing the end of capitalism and the end of American football? Were Karl Marx alive today, he might say that there is.
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A recurring theme for some financial commentators recently has been the...
We have the usual blog style rumble going on: someone presumably on the right says something, various leftish type people insist he's all full of wind and then, well, right now in fact someone thought to be on the right, myself, says that they're...
Free-market capitalism, like that practiced in the U.S. and U.K., and Chinese-style state-led capitalism are growing more similar, while European-style capitalism continues to struggle amid high expectations that governments on the continent can...