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One of the biggest problems facing American healthcare is the high price of prescription drugs yet Congress doesn’t seem to be willing to do anything about it.One interesting solution to the problem might be to eliminate patents for drugs or at...
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The British member of Parliament Lord Nazir Ahmed has expressed his full support of competition and free market economy and endorsed immediate ratification of the Competition Ordinance, 2007. He lent his full support in his meeting with the Chairman,...
Tags: Pakistan Times Wire Service, Nazir Ahmed, competition law, free market, lords ahmed, lords nazir, market economies, Pakistan, Karāchi, Ahmad, Competition, English Muslims, Nazir Ahmad
The survey, commissioned by the BBC World Service, found widespread but measured scepticism of the world economic system in light of the financial crisis. Carried out to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , the survey suggests...
Tags: free market, Pakistan, Karāchi, Socialism, Capitalism, Economic ideologies, Economies, Social philosophy
Now, the other thing is, fairly recently, the Bank of China has made an entry into the UK market – what is the Bank of China doing in the UK? Michael: I think one of the things we've found is there's a lot of money in Asia that's looking for a home,...
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Frank, a think tank lackey, has a solution to America's housing problem: Ship all the poor black and Hispanic people to abandoned McMansions. Share and save this post: AlterNet Social Networks: You would think during a time...
Tags: T.A. Frank, Frank and Associates, public housing, Yasha Levine, poor black, free market, Los Angeles, Urban economics, Gentrification, Urban geography, Unemployment, Affordable housing, Urban decay, Sociology, Social Issues
Last Friday, my colleague Ilan Moscovitz and I laid out why we think there's no excuse not to break big banks apart, ending "too big to fail." JPM ) CEO Jamie Dimon, refuting what we thought were unfounded defenses of the megabank culture. That same day,...
Tags: Jamie Dimon, free market, Alexandria, Dow Jones Industrial Average, House of Morgan, JPMorgan Chase, Too Big to Fail, Primary dealers, Investment banks, Banking in the United States, Business Finance
Is free market capitalism failing?...Twenty years ago when the Berlin Wall collapsed and the Cold War ended, the mere suggestion that something was wrong with capitalism might have sounded preposterous, absurd, and almost insane.
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Contrary to what some folks may think here, I don't hate Republicans. Living here in California, I have voted for the GOP candidate for Congress four times, for governor twice (two different guys) and senator once (against Barbara Boxer in 1998). If...
Tags: conservatives, liberals, free market, economic democracy
Like fish stranded by a fast retreating tide, most mainstream economists, commentators and governments tend to be flapping around frantically and aimlessly, unaware of the real cause of their distress. The more cautious among them hope for a slow return...
Tags: economy, economists, crisis, financial, stock exchange, derivatives, futures, glut, over capacity, production, Henry Ford, Marx, Engels, Samuelson, Callaghan, free market, neo-liberal, Keynes, Friedman, unemployment
We've watched AIG, Lehman Brothers, banks, insurance and mortgage companies fail. Then America looked on as the Big Three went to Washington in their private jets to ask for a bailout. Ford said they didn't really need one, but just wanted to tag...
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