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...keeping its fingers crossed. "There's a lot of wariness about all forms of financial market activities and that's perfectly understandable," says Richard Metcalfe, global head of policy at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. "There's a huge amount of political pressure to do things. Let's do it in a way that is intelligent." (See "Turning Point for the Global Recession...
...reaction to his statement feels more ritualistic than rational. After all, unemployment is still nudging 10%, and foreclosure rates remain high. Yet the Great Fed Shaman has pronounced the recession monster dead. Let us rejoice...
...wasn't a specific incident? The Republicans and the Right Wing gave permission for all of us to use words we haven't used before: capitalism and socialism. So let's have a discourse. They called Obama a socialist because he told Joe the plumber he wanted to spread the wealth around. Then we had the crash and a month later Bush is talking about the glories of capitalism. I don't' remember in my lifetime where the President starts off a speech says, "And now class, today's topic is capitalism." They started using these words...
...various banks and demand the return of our money. Maybe you were just a tad early? And the AIG money? I don't think we're going to see any of that. You cannot steal money, and then invest the money and then give it back. You can't, let's say you are the president of the Kiwanis. You can't take the organization's money, go make a profitable investment and then slip it back. It's a felony. It's as if you beat up your spouse and then take your spouse to the hospital and then...
...aren't you really a model capitalist? You raise money. You hire people. You create a product and sell it to the public, bearing the risk and gaining the rewards that goes along with it. Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself. My last movie, I gave it away for free on the Internet: Slacker Uprising. If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid...