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Capitalism and Culture: The War on Wall Street

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast covers the debate over capitalism in America, particularly focusing on AEI President Arthur Brooks’ thesis about the way voters perceive the crisis and what it means for capitalism’s future.

Gold For Oil?

In response to this Robert Fisk report on ending dollars for oil, a couple of interesting things come up. Of course the Saudis denied it immediately.

Why Does Comcast Want to Buy NBC-Universal?

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the latest news from the markets, the potential Comcast deal with GE for NBC-Universal, and its ramifications for the broader media space.

Why Can’t Governments Borrow Forever?

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the latest news from the markets, the reelection of Angela Merkel in Germany, a discussion on inflation and sucker’s rallies, and the question: why can’t the government just keep borrowing forever?

Bernanke’s Back!

Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Tuesday, August 25th edition of Coffee & Markets, a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace. Today’s podcast focuses on the renomination of Ben Bernanke, the ramifications for the markets, and what it says about President Obama that he’s renominating so many of George W. Bush’s appointees.

The Markets and Policy Manifesto

Free markets and free trade are good. But society as a whole has a say in how to use the material well-being that free markets produce.

Podcast: Long Term Predictions

Let’s say that President Obama gets even a small part of what he promised in the SOTU. We’re talking about massive distortions in incentives and even in basic industrial efficiency - about rolling back the industrial revolution, which would be the net effect of making energy vastly more expensive and tripling taxes on driving.

The Grand Bargain

The essential challenge for the United States is to simultaneously achieve two things that, in conventional ideology, are incompatible. These are to fulfill society’s promise of affordable necessities and comfortable retirement for all, and also to preserve America’s culture of freedom and economic opportunity, where anyone can get rich.

- November 21, 2009 -

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