On AlterNet: investment

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "investment"

Where We're Headed, We Don't Need Roads

David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. April 10, 2012.

The long American romance with cars is ending. So why are we still spending so much money on roads?

Government As Venture Capitalist: The Amazing True History

San Francisco ChronicleMarch 21, 2012.

How government investment created the technologies that have made us so rich

The Biggest Engine of Economic Growth? 8 Ways Taxpayers and the Government Are Necessary to Capitalism

Colin Greer, AlterNet. March 13, 2012.

Almost everything the American capitalist system needs is provided by taxpayer dollars and government action.

Why the Food Market Will Be the Next Bubble to Burst

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. September 23, 2011.

Private investment firms are betting on hunger, and their reasoning, unfortunately, is sound.

Apocalypse Investors: How Wall Street Bets on Catastrophic Breakdowns That Destroy Lives

Alyssa Battistoni, AlterNet. July 6, 2011.

Bankers figure that if global markets collapse, they might as well make money out of it.

Why BP's Dumb Investors Need to Stop Crying

George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. June 22, 2010.

Whenever greens or ethical investors warned them about BP's cavalier behavior, instead of thanking them, the big fund managers reacted with hostility.

Woman Sees Her Home Confiscated Over a Water Bill

Fred Schulte, Ben Protess, Lagan Sebert, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. June 6, 2010.

Vicki Valentine lost the two-story brick row home after the city sold her debt to investors through a contentious and byzantine legal process called a "tax sale."

Word "Canadian" So "Reviled in Some Places" that Visiting Canucks Say They're Americans

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 23, 2009.

An odd turn.

Get Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams!

David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. April 11, 2009.

Take a lesson from corporate America's newest surefire money-making strategy: graft.

How a Green Economy Is an Antidote to Casino Capitalism

Robert Pollin, New Labor Forum. April 2, 2009.

A green investment sector can help rid the capital development of the U.S. economy of casino logic.

A Key Concept the Media Are Missing About the Economic Crisis

Bill Scher, Campaign for America's Future. October 23, 2008.

It is not only possible but potentially necessary to increase public investments in spite of a large deficit.

We've Got to Rebuild America's Crumbling Infrastructure

Joanna Guldi, AlterNet. August 16, 2008.

"The nation's skeleton is as fragile as the candy-cane bones sucked down to threads on Cinco de Mayo."