Posted October 28, 2009 - 05:00 by Philip Brewer
There are people out there whose livelihoods depend on the fact that most people go every day to some job or another. Business owners, investors, retired folks -- capitalists in general -- pay their expenses with profits that would be threatened if there weren't plenty of workers trading their life for a paycheck.
Posted February 4, 2009 - 14:38 by Silicon Valley Blogger
I hope you'll permit me to speculate a little on what it means to live below our means. When you think about it, there are various ways to address our financial goals, which I'll categorize into three basic approaches: you can cut costs, increase your income or do a combination of both. How do you go about saving money and building your net worth?
Posted February 7, 2008 - 07:17 by Philip Brewer
For most of the 20th century, capitalism and democracy seemed to go hand-in-hand. After all, every democratic country was largely capitalist and nearly every capitalist country was, at least to some extent, democratic. What we've seen since the 1970s, though, has been a huge upswing in capitalism, while democracy has weakened. Robert Reich's book is about how this happened and what we might do about it.
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