This Column Is Dedicated to Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists
By The New York Times
The tech industry is far from perfect, but it…
➔ iRichard Parson’s push to make asset management more equitable
By The Washington Post
In this conversation recorded for Washington Post…
➔ iWith the Silicon Valley Bank rescue, welcome to capitalism without risk
By The Washington Post
The government's response to the banking crisis…
➔ iBe serious, conservatives. ‘Wokeness’ didn’t cause Silicon Valley Bank’s demise | Tayo Bero
By The Guardian
The right is claiming that political correctness…
➔ iA Capitalist Way to Fix Social Security
By The Wall Street Journal
Investing retirement funds in the market will…
➔ iAdam Tooze: What Is ESG Investing and Why the Sudden Backlash?
By Foreign Policy
Some Republicans are calling it “woke…
➔ iRepublicans are threatening to default on the US national debt. Don’t believe them | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Here’s a dirty secret: both Republicans’ debt…
➔ iYellen's Global Minimum Tax Is a Boon for Beijing
By The Wall Street Journal
The proposed world-wide levy would exempt…
➔ iThe US central bank is poised to cause untold hardship to millions of Americans | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The Federal Reserve chairman has admitted that at…
➔ iIs the US government ready for the rise of artificial intelligence? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
AI could benefit society, but it could also…
➔ iIs the Pope Capitalist?
By The Wall Street Journal
The left’s push to ‘civilize capitalism’…
➔ iThe Rise of Kickback Capitalism
By The Wall Street Journal
What the government does best is throw your tax…
➔ iDeSantis Takes Mouse Scalp
By The American Conservative
'Old-guard corporate Republicanism' isn't up to…
➔ iGautam Adani and the New Indian Capitalism
By Foreign Policy
The businessman has roots in Gujarat, but he…
➔ iBest way to save money? Just eat two meals, says the Wall Street Journal! | Arwa Mahdawi
By The Guardian
Our current stage of capitalism demands that poor…
➔ iJoe Biden has steadied the nation – why don’t his polling numbers reflect this? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Biden’s State of the Union address is a…
➔ iRepublicans aren’t going to tell Americans the real cause of our $31tn debt | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The rich used to pay taxes. Now they loan money…
➔ iCuba Takes Aim at Peru
By The Wall Street Journal
The goal is to replace democratic capitalism with…
➔ iTrump vs. DeSantis Death Match? Bring It On!
By The Nation
Joan Walsh While the Florida governor crusades…
➔ iThe Davos Crowd Sees Republicans as the Enemy
By The Wall Street Journal
The elites at the World Economic Forum have a…
➔ iThe Economic Philosophy of MLK
By Foreign Policy
Martin Luther King Jr.’s critique of capitalism…
➔ iThere is no US labor shortage. That’s a myth | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
There is, however, a shortage of jobs paying…
➔ iThe Hidden History of the World’s Top Offshore Cryptocurrency Tourist Resort
By Foreign Policy
The Bahamas represents how global capitalism can…
➔ iThe FTC is back to being the activist US agency progressives sought in 1914 | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Last week, under its Biden-appointed chair, the…
➔ iThe US should break up monopolies – not punish working Americans for rising prices | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The Fed is putting people out of work to reduce…
➔ iRon DeSantis Gets Real Fighting Wokeness
By The American Conservative
Florida governor fights insanity by making bold…
➔ iHouse Democrats should unite with moderate Republicans to elect a speaker | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
In exchange for backing a relatively moderate…
➔ iGiorgia Meloni’s Bootstrap Ideology
By The Nation
David Broder The new Italian government’s…
➔ iJonathan Haidt on the 'National Crisis' of Gen Z
By The Wall Street Journal
Warped by social media and a victimhood culture,…
➔ iNo, AOC, capitalism isn’t too ‘consumerist’ around the holidays
By New York Post
This holiday season, avoid the “Bah! Humbug!”…
➔ iLetters to the Editor: Our wealth and consumption are killing the planet. We must rethink capitalism
By Los Angeles Times
Profit will have to motivate climate action in…
➔ iMerry Christmas! We’re All Being Murdered by Capitalism.
By The Intercept
Here at The Intercept, we are committed to…
➔ iTrump, Bankman-Fried and Musk are the monsters of American capitalism | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
For them, and for everyone who still regards them…
➔ iA Capitalist Christmas Carol
By The Wall Street Journal
Frank Siller is the anti-Scrooge, asking what he…
➔ iWho Cares Whether Elon Musk Is CEO of Twitter? He OWNS It.
By The Intercept
In capitalism, managers aren’t in charge...
➔ iBlack Santa isn't woke opportunism gone rogue, it's just good old American capitalism
By USA Today
The proven capitalist value of diversity is an…
➔ iThe Fed needs to stop raising interest rates | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Interest rate hikes mean that workers and…
➔ iUS immigration laws should be enforced with discretion. That’s common sense | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Biden ordered officials to focus on deporting…
➔ iSuppressing the stats that make progressives look bad
By New York Post
What do you do when the data don't fit your…
➔ iThe Georgia Senate runoff is a referendum on Trump’s zombie grasp on America | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The biggest loser in a Raphael Warnock victory…
➔ iWhat would the world look like without America?
By American Thinker
Where exactly would the world be without…
➔ iCanadian Capitalist Culture Of Death
By The American Conservative
First Balenciaga's child sex chic, now fashion…
➔ iOn Black Friday, a chat between Capitalism and Common Sense. No really, they talked.
By USA Today
To celebrate Black Friday, I put the day's…
➔ iFDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations
By The Nation
John Nichols The 32nd president regularly…
➔ iThe Guardian view on crony capitalism: a moral corruption stalks parliament | Editorial
By The Guardian
The country is in trouble if during a national…
➔ iFTX Meltdown Isn’t Failure of Capitalism
By The Daily Signal
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock…
➔ iDemocrats have retained the US Senate. American voters have opted for stability | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
After years of tempest and tumult, most of us…
➔ iTrump and Elon Musk are dangerous narcissists tailored to 2022 America | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
We’re better off when people like them cannot…
➔ iElon Musk’s Paul Pelosi tweet proves he has no business running Twitter | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
If Musk’s tweet doesn’t raise bright red…
➔ iWhat made America great? Unfettered capitalism.
By American Thinker
Why taxation is socialism -- and theft.
➔ iDemocrats need to address economic fears now – or risk losing their majorities | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Until Democrats tell it like it is, their…
➔ iNo, Capitalism and the Internet Will Not Free China’s People
By The New York Times
The Communist Party’s war on independent…
➔ iDo we want social media companies to decide whether Kanye West gets a platform? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Platforms like Twitter and Instagram control the…
➔ iWhy is trickle-down economics still with us? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
This gonzo economic theory continues to live on,…
➔ iAdam Posen: Woke Capitalist For Social Justice
By The American Conservative
Harvard PhD says domestic manufacturing concerns…
➔ iCapitalism and Anomie
By The American Conservative
A new study demonstrates that foreign direct…
➔ iCapitalism Says the More Population the Merrier
By The Wall Street Journal
When Earth’s eight billionth baby is born, we…
➔ iMarxism at the Museum
By The Wall Street Journal
What does donor Stephen Schwarzman think of these…
➔ iThe View, (from the 9th grade lunch table)
By American Thinker
The hags at The View don't know what…
➔ iThe US ultra-rich justify their low tax rates with three myths – all rubbish | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
A record share of the nation’s wealth is in the…
➔ iCorporate greed, not wages, is behind inflation. It’s time for price controls | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Corporations are using rising costs as an excuse…
➔ iRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims capitalism is depressing birth rates
By American Thinker
...and the solution is open borders.
➔ iThe week in whoppers: AOC’s birth-rate idiocy, Sunny Hostin’s Nikki Haley backfire and more
By New York Post
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that…
➔ iRepublicans won’t commit to honoring vote results this fall. That’s troubling | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
More and more Republican candidates are in effect…
➔ iWhy is mainstream US TV spreading moral panics about affirmative action run amok? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Television talkshows have huge power to influence…
➔ iHistory will judge Republicans who stay silent about the big lie | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
If the democratic experiment called America…
➔ iDemocracy is under attack – and reporting that isn’t ‘violating journalistic standards’ |…
By The Guardian
Biden gave a rare primetime address on the most…
➔ iMaybe US mainstream media should begin using the term ‘fascism’ | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
My tweet about Ron DeSantis provoked outrage in…
➔ iCapitalism and the Freedom to Walk Away
By The Wall Street Journal
Jean Baechler was a rare French intellectual who…
➔ iThe Guardian view on China’s censors: the sense of an (acceptable) ending | Editorial
By The Guardian
It is not just political matters that exercise…
➔ iThe changes at CNN look politically motivated. That should concern us all | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Brian Stelter’s very popular and commerically…
➔ iAmerica used to regulate business. Now government subsidises it | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
What’s to blame? The change in the balance of…
➔ iBig Tech Censors Covid-Vaccine Skeptics (Again)
By The American Conservative
YouTube removed TAC’s annual Crony Capitalism…
➔ iIn praise of Liz Cheney. May we have more politicians like her | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
We need more politicians who stand by their…
➔ iWhole Foods founder John Mackey: Liberals are forcing companies to back their political agenda
By New York Post
Whole Foods founder John Mackey is a well-known…
➔ iOp-Ed: Solve the insulin pricing problem by getting government into the business
By Los Angeles Times
Gov. Gavin Newsom is right to try 'public…
➔ iReaders sound off on capitalism’s callousness, life after death and the SALT tax
By New York Daily News
Monroe, N.Y.: Many people discuss homelessness as…
➔ iTrump’s worst toadies hold degrees from Harvard and Yale. Did they learn anything? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Politicians educated at some of the US’s most…
➔ iJoe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema act out of ego, not principle | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
If there’s one thing the two supposedly…
➔ iWorkers are being punished for inflation. The real culprit is corporate greed | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Big corporations are using inflation as cover to…
➔ iThe Dollar Emergency Is Worse Than You Think
By The Wall Street Journal
Currency exchange-rate chaos is becoming an…
➔ iThe infamous 'kitchen debate' with the Soviets
By American Thinker
For Nixon and Khrushchev, the kitchen stood as a…
➔ iTrump’s attempted coup continues – even after January 6 hearings are over for now | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The committee has produced history’s most…
➔ iPerhaps it’s time to kick Joe Manchin out of the Democratic party | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
At every opportunity, Manchin has sabotaged…
➔ iAs a 76-year-old let me say: Joe Biden is too old to run again | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
I’m sure the president is experiencing some…
➔ iThese companies are as complicit as the far right in threatening US democracy | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Corporations are underwriting the thuggery of…
➔ iThe Republican party is terrible.. So why may Democrats lose to them this year? | Robert Reicb
By The Guardian
Some commentators think Democrats have moved too…
➔ iThis Fourth of July, it’s worth pondering the true meaning of patriotism | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
True patriots don’t fuel racist, religious or…
➔ iThe US supreme court has declared war on the Earth’s future | Kate Aronoff
By The Guardian
In a major environmental case, the court has made…
➔ iIs your faucet spying on you?
By New York Daily News
For New Yorkers, it may feel like there are…
➔ iWhy is the US about to give away $52bn to corporations like Intel? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The Chips Act would provide an enormous subsidy…
➔ iThe PGA Tour discovers...capitalism!
By American Thinker
Commissioner Monahan gets the message, sort of.
➔ i‘Stakeholder’ capitalism is parasitic progressivism
By The Washington Post
ESG investing appeals to people for whom mere…
➔ iBusiness beware, ‘stakeholder’ capitalism is parasitic progressivism
By The Washington Post
ESG (environmental, social and governance)…
➔ iThe January 6 hearings are damning. But Republicans don’t care | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The January 6 hearings are damning. But…
➔ iPresidents' Words of Wisdom
"Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life."
- Ronald Reagan