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How Steve Jobs Jobbed The Left Mon Jun 4

Bruce Bialosky

How do you become a business titan that treats employees like garbage, creates products intended to be monopolies, charges excessive prices that result in outrageous profits, practices significant tax avoidance, and yet not get pilloried (on the contrary, become deified) by the anti-business media? ... more
Improving Life for Workers Wed May 30

John Stossel

It seems intuitive that a free market would lead to a "race to the bottom." In a global marketplace, profit-chasing employers will cut costs by paying workers less and less, and shipping jobs to China. ... more
No Surprise When Cory Booker Defends Capitalism Mon May 28

Star Parker

Winston Churchill captured what this presidential election is about when he observed “the inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” ... more
Which Kind of Capitalism? A Debate for Obama and Romney Wed May 23

Jonah Goldberg

"This is not a distraction, this is what this campaign is going to be about," President Obama said Monday at the NATO summit. The "this" in question is Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital and what it says about Romney's economic vision for the country. ... more
Keeping Business Honest Wed May 23

John Stossel

Instinctively, we look for people's motives. We need to know whom we can trust and whom we can't. We're especially skeptical of business because we know business wants our money. ... more
Metrics of Capitalism Tue May 22

Jeff Carter

If you look at certain data points, capitalism can be merciless. Some people wind up out of work, some lose money. There is risk in capitalism. But, without risk there isn’t reward. ... more
Hating the Rich Sat May 19

Bill O'Reilly

My late father was a man of strong opinion. He despised phonies, cowards and liars. He named names -- sometimes in very close proximity to those being singled out. A veteran of World War II, he recognized a weasel when he saw one. ... more
Why America Works: Duck Dynasty Thu May 17

Katie Pavlich
Businesses Must Fight Wed May 16

Michael Reagan

Sheep and chickens. That's what America's greatest corporations have become. ... more
Here We Go: Obama Camp Launches Major Bain Capital Attack Mon May 14

Guy Benson
[Video] Occupier on Hannity: 'Everything Should Be Free, and No One Has to Pay!' Fri May 4

Kate Hicks
Americans: Free Market Makes America Great, Not Government Mon Apr 23

Katie Pavlich
Is Capitalism Dead, or Simply Dying? Fri Apr 20

Mike Shedlock

Duncan is yet another author who predicted a financial crisis but whose solutions can only be described as monetary madness. ... more
Survival of the Fittest and Other Barackian Myths Tue Apr 10

Bill Murchison

As the current president of the United States tells it, his Republican adversaries are launched on a crusade to revive the dog-eat-dog economic philosophy known to our great grandparents as "social Darwinism." Horrors! ... more
Judas Kisses Capitalism Mon Apr 9

Katie Kieffer

Christ recognized as “good” a legitimate form of human government that espouses freedom, private property rights and representative authority. So, if you call yourself a Christian (as President Obama does) then I think you must also be a capitalist. ... more
5 Reasons Socialism Is Inferior To Capitalism Tue Mar 20

John Hawkins

Saying that capitalism is better than socialism is like saying that winning a million dollars is better than being in a high impact car crash. In other words, if you have an open mind, a good grasp on human nature and economics, and a passing knowledge of world history, there's absolutely no question that capitalism is superior to socialism. ... more
Is Liberalism Lazy and Immoral? Fri Mar 16

Mona Charen

The best advocates are often converts. So it is with Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute. ... more
Vulture Capitalism Wed Mar 7

John Stossel

Now that Mitt Romney is likely to be the Republican nominee, we can expect new attacks on his "vulture capitalism." That's how Rick Perry characterized his private equity work. Newt Gingrich's supporters ran an ad about Romney's firm, Bain Capital, that said, "Their greed was only matched by their willingness to do anything to make millions in profits." ... more
Occupy, SEUI and Academics Working Together to Destroy Capitalism Mon Mar 5

Katie Pavlich
'Occupy' Movement More Radical than Previously Thought Mon Mar 5

New York, NY

Breitbart reveals an even more radical element in the 'Occupy' movement's goal of abolishing capitalism. ... more
Pandering at the Pump Sun Feb 26

Steve Chapman

In the field of petroleum, location is everything. If you want to find oil, you don't drill in Rhode Island. And if you want to find wisdom about gasoline markets, you avoid Washington, D.C. ... more
Al Gore takes aim at "unsustainable" capitalism Thu Feb 16

Reuters News
Putin puts state capitalism first for Russia Mon Jan 30

Reuters News
Why Steve Jobs Said: 'I'm Disappointed in Obama' Mon Jan 30

Katie Kieffer

Two months before Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer, he told his biographer Walter Isaacson: “I’m disappointed in Obama.” ... more
Romney Should be Proud Fri Jan 27

Mona Charen

It's as predictable as vultures at a carcass. When a wealthy Republican is running for office, the press will make his wealth a handicap. Recall that when George H. W. Bush was running in 1988, he was derided as a "preppy." ... more