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On the last day of 2009, that awful year, I was listening to a report on National Public Radio (yes, I'm a listener). Reporter Tamara Keith presented a by-now-familiar recap of the worst financial and corporate scandals of the decade, from Enron and Martha Stewart to Tyco and Bernie Madoff. It was a depressing slog of greed, venality and theft. When the report was over, "Morning Edition" host Steve Inskeep summarized the report with a tart: "The decade in capitalism."
I don't want to single out Inskeep, since he was doing...
Capitalism Fingered as Fiend of the Past Decade
the dude misspoke if he said "the decade in capitalism" (which doesn't even make sense, "in"?) he should have been more clear.
does he actually think that capitalism is the problem? probably not. he misspoke.
Unless he does, which, i agree, is the wrong position.
Unfortunately, there is no "talk radio" station that serves the middle ground or the "those of us that want to find a solution and get along".
We get to flip back and forth between bleeding hearts and righteous zealots.
my two cents is this. i need to listen to something that isn't a complete waste of my time, something informative,...