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‘Kumbaya’ capitalism collides with self-interest
Davos Man prefers to believe in a world of ‘‘kumbaya’’ capitalism, where self-interest and the public interest would coincide. Openly insisting that this is not always the case is how Soros really has betrayed his class.
Davos’ glaring youth problem
It's fitting and not terribly surprising that a Davos panel on preventing a "Lost Generation" of unemployed youth, at times, devolved into management truisms about flexible work hours and blanket statements about young workers' love of ethical business practices.
Uninvited guest, Mr 99 Percent, crashes Davos
The rich and the powerful at the World Economic Forum are haunted by the shadow of the unemployed and disenfranchised. The specter is in the panels, hallway conversations and political speeches. What’s less clear is whether the gathered plutocrats can deal with income inequality.
Fear in Davos
It's highly unscientific and anecdotal, but the winner, by far, of the most-talked-about-person-in-Davos award, at least when it comes to people in my earshot, is George Soros.
Wasting away in Dementiaville
GOP presidential candidates are most comfortable trying to market their imagined utopia of the 1950s. It was a wonderful decade for some, but it was also the time of Jim Crow, segregation, and the mistreatment of women and homosexuals.
The social market economy
Capitalism is the name people give to the way the modern economy is arranged. Now that Communism has been discredited as an economic system, there seems to be no real alternative. But the word is misleading.
How religion is infiltrating public schools
School administrators who want to deliver religious messages to their students now have legal ways of doing it, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court. And thousands of schools across the country are using what some call this "God-given loophole."MOST COMMENTED
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