economic system

The economic system has just begun to feel the disruptive nature of a globally connected economy when a leading country (USA) realizes it is in an economic decline with no quick answer or sound solutions. Obama, buckle your seat belt.

Did the recent financial crisis--punctuated by calls for ramming through a bailout bill to save banks and fund capital budgets--actually open the door to consolidation of executive power at the U.S. Treasury? David Sirota argues that in gaining a bailout bill, we may have lost a democratic economic system:

While Sean Braisted recognizes that the full and complete collapse of our economic system may be the ideal situation for his political party, he is not looking forward to it and will support those that fight against it:

As we watch the debate about the systemic problems with our current economic system one wonders if it is time to “change the system”. Our economy has long been based on debits and credits, outcomes of the results of activity. The outcomes are variable while the answers to creating less variability lie within the “processes [...]

What's going on with America's economic system ? Why now is it so important to bail it out now ? Why are the rich so desperately in need of America's taxpayers ? Why did'nt anyone see this coming ?

President Bush has created an economic vacuum called Bushanomics. This is what the news media used to call , " Pork Barrel Spending " or was it " The Gravy Train " ?

How do we know the threat to the economy is real?

I don't know about you, but is anyone else getting the feeling that the days of American Exceptionalism are fast coming to an end?

Bernard Rapoport, a liberal Texas millionaire, the child of immigrants and one of the more renowned American philanthropists, recently took out a full-page, hard-copy ad in the Texas Observer in order to criticize the modern economic ruling class that misnames itself "capitalist." After quoting Max

I want to start this off by saying that I love democracy, I love freedom, and I love the United States of America. I have the utmost respect for our armed forces and have served honorably in them myself. I am not writing the following to be unpatriotic or to be in support of any other political or economic system. Got it? Good!...