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Tag: Free Markets

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Gated Intellectuals, Fortress America, and the Politics of Occupy

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —

A group of right-wing extremists would have the American public believe it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of a market society.

Posted on Mar 21, 2012 READ MORE | 22 COMMENTS

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Youth in Revolt: The Plague of State-Sponsored Violence

By Henry Giroux, Truthout —

Young people the world over demonstrating against economic injustice are met with state-sanctioned violence and insults in the mainstream media, rather than informed dialogue, critical engagement and reformed policies.

Posted on Mar 14, 2012 READ MORE | 9 COMMENTS

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Thomas Frank on ‘Utopian Market Populism’

“Pity the Billionaire,” the new book by Harper’s Magazine columnist Thomas Frank, surveys the politics of the last three years to determine why the American right survived and thrived after an economic crash caused by a 30-year love affair with the so-called free-market that it procured. Salon speaks to Frank by phone.

Posted on Dec 28, 2011 READ MORE | 6 COMMENTS

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Nouriel Roubini: Capitalism Must Be Saved From Itself

Economist and New York University professor Nouriel Roubini explains that globalization, reckless lending and borrowing, and the redirection of income and wealth from industries dependent upon human labor and well-being to those composed mainly of capital ... (more)

Posted on Aug 15, 2011 READ MORE | 18 COMMENTS

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A Non-Rising Tide Lifts No Boats

The rationale of the TARP bailout’s “capital-injection program”—providing banks with capital that will increase loans to consumers and businesses—has apparently been forgotten by the 20 largest banks that received TARP money. A Treasury Department survey has found that lending in the last quarter of 2008 was stagnant, or even slightly declined, despite $250 billion in capital-injection funds.