Colombia’s incoming finance minister wants fair capitalism
July 14, 2022 GMTBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The economics professor who has been tapped as Colombia’s next finance minister says the left-leaning government taking office next month will focus on increasing taxes on the rich so it can spend more on poverty programs.
Review: An imperialist repents in ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’
January 18, 2022 GMT“Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire” by Jonathan M. Katz (St. Martin's Press)
Plenty of U.S. veterans of the country’s 21-century “forever wars” — men and women who lost buddies and limbs to roadside bombs and suffer psychic scars — struggle to understand the why behind them.
Pope: Market capitalism has failed in pandemic, needs reform
October 4, 2020 GMTROME (AP) — Pope Francis says the coronavirus pandemic has proven that the “magic theories” of market capitalism have failed and that the world needs a new type of politics that promotes dialogue and solidarity and rejects war at all costs...
Review: A writer reflects on contradictions of capitalism
September 2, 2020 GMT“Having and Being Had,” by Eula Biss (Riverhead Books)
When it comes to capitalism, Eula Biss is a skeptic...
Meet the scholar who diagnosed ‘surveillance capitalism’
December 11, 2019 GMTA year ago, Shoshana Zuboff dropped an intellectual bomb on the technology industry. She hasn’t stood still since...
Patrick defends corporations and capitalism in primary bid
November 19, 2019 GMTDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick is centering BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy is urging his fellow Democrats to adopt a new economic ideology — what he's calling "moral capitalism" — as they prepare to take control of the House in January...US Rep. Kennedy: Democrats should embrace “moral capitalism”
November 29, 2018 GMT
Trump’s move to redefine water rule threatens wetlands banks
June 15, 2018 GMTGAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A private firm is making big money selling promises about some gator-infested Florida swampland...
Vulture capitalism and its impact
June 25, 2017 GMTThe morning of June 16, I woke to the latest, near-bombshell news, that e-commerce leviathan Amazon is buying organic grocery giant Whole Foods Market for a staggering $13.7 billion. We all like big news stories, and at first blush, this makes for jubilant buzz.