On AlterNet: free market

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "free market"

Sucker: How Cable Companies Make You Pay For Channels You'll Never Watch

Stephen Pizzo, Smirking Chimp. January 13, 2012.

Even though anti-trust laws say cable companies can't coordinate their business plans, they do.

The Drug Market Scam: Why You Pay Way Too Much for Bad Medicine (And Bernie Sanders' Solution)

Dean Baker, AlterNet. June 2, 2011.

Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to create a prize fund that would buy up drug patents, so that drugs could be sold at their free market price.

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism: Item #1 -- There's No Such Thing as a Free Market

Ha-Joon Chang, Bloomsbury Press. January 31, 2011.

Author Ha-Joon Chang dismisses the idea that any capitalist market is free and questions whether it can ever really be fair.

Naomi Klein: How Socialism Protected Chileans from Earthquake Fall-out

Naomi Klein, The Nation. March 4, 2010.

Wall Street Journal columnist makes an attempt to rewrite history that Chile's "free-market" dictator Augusto Pinochet can be thanked for preventing destruction there.

How Free-Market Delusions Destroyed the Economy

Raj Patel, Picador Press. November 30, 2009.

The worship of free markets set off the economic meltdown.

American Mythology and the Free Market that Never Was

Timothy McGettigan, AlterNet. August 14, 2009.

Regardless of party affiliation, every modern Commander-in-Chief has been a big supporter of federal economic intervention.

Why Do Christians Worship Greed?

Peter Laarman, Religion Dispatches. May 21, 2009.

Only in America can one find significant numbers of Christians who argue that unfettered capitalism represents God's Plan for human thriving.

People Must Stop Believing in the Free Market Fairies

Heroesall, Unstuffed AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 8, 2009.

Even now, with the world economy swirling down the S-bend, we hear some hardy souls claiming that 'the free market will fix it.'

Republicans Bring Socialism to Millionaires and Screw the Rest of Us

Robert Scheer, Truthdig. December 11, 2008.

If tough love is good enough for financially strapped families, why have a poverty program for troubled corporations?

Is John McCain Stupid, or Does He Think We Are?

David Sirota, AlterNet. October 24, 2008.

That's the question, as he slams Obama for his plan to lower taxes on the middle class and raise them on the super-rich.

GOP Puts Party Before Country: for the Sake of Free Market 'Do You Accept a Great Depression?'

Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. September 26, 2008.

Why in the world would anyone doubt for a moment that they'd play politics with an economic crisis?

Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction

Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. September 22, 2008.

Free market ideology comes down to socialism for the rich, capitalism for everybody else.

Only a Roosevelt-Scale Counterrevolution Can Prevent Great Depression II

Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect. September 18, 2008.

Free-market extremists brought us this needless economic collapse. Here's a rundown of the mistakes we've made and the reforms we need now.

The U.S. Economy Is Socialism for the Rich

Michael Leon Guerrero, Movement Vision Lab. July 24, 2008.

Free market capitalism in the United States is by no means "free." It's time we recognize this and move past the destructive neoliberal agenda.

Nightmare on Wall Street: Washington Can't Bail out the Sea of Red Ink

Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. July 22, 2008.

Author Bill Greider explains to Moyers that the magic of the "free market" is coming to a close.