Copycat Capitalists

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

And he ended his life selling companies to venture capitalists.

Unfortunately, many of us in this room are supporters of capitalist policies and market forces.

In New York, the Twin Towers embodied capitalist ambition and achievement.

Lenin once said that capitalists would sell the ropes with which they would be hanged.

Carnegie one of the great capitalists of this country carved above his legacy, Free to the People.

The IMF purportedly does so to save capitalists and bankers, not ordinary people.

Why would capitalists extract so little value from workers if they could get so much more out of them?

It was only when Deng Xiaoping opened the door to trade with capitalist countries that anti Japanese sentiments were deliberately stirred up.

Capitalist economies have been spectacularly efficient at enabling growing consumption of private goods, at least over the long run.

In 1929, a crisis among speculating capitalists prompted poorly conceived and excessive reactions, leading to a deep and prolonged depression.

Ukraine s success will mark the political death of Putinism, that squalid philosophy of KGB Capitalists.

But, unlike in other capitalist economies, money is not the only tool at the authorities disposal.

They were pious people but they were also really aggressive capitalists, and they were accused of extreme forms of profit making tendencies compared to the other colonists.

Such questions will only be seen as an attempt to undermine national sovereignty, or to sell the country to foreign neoliberal capitalists.

For the capitalist speculators must not be allowed to have the last word the Member States' governments must take action.

I must point out to the EPP that this means giving milk away to the big capitalist dairies.

Lastly, backers of European funds are discussing available options to speed up the process of normalisation of sovereign debt markets.

Critics have argued that extractivism, even with social redistribution, destroys nature, deepens authoritarian politics, and furthers dependence on global capitalist markets.

Capitalist economies are not self adjusting market forces might eventually restore an economy of full employment, as Keynes said, but in the long run we are all dead.

That would mean further humiliation for ordinary people, who bear the brunt of corruption, as government officials and their crony capitalists continued to siphon off public funds.

Nineteenth and twentieth century European nationalists often regarded the US as the natural home for capitalists and rootless cosmopolitans without any loyalty to their native soil.

It was widely assumed than Jews, whether capitalist or communist, knew no allegiance except to their own people after 1948, that increasingly came to mean the state of Israel.

In fact, when we first went out to raise money to start Babble, the venture capitalists said, We categorically don't invest in companies founded by husbands and wives, because there's an extra point of failure.

A few years ago, a Russian film simply entitled 1612 evoked the Time of Troubles, when weak leadership caused Russia to be invaded and subverted by insidious Polish aristocrats and capitalists.

The European Central Bank s vehement opposition to what is essential to all capitalist economies the restructuring of failed or insolvent entities debt is evidence of the continuing fragility of the Western banking system.

The most encompassing view is that of the political economy school, which argues that health inequalities are determined by capitalist economies hierarchical structure and the associated political choices about resource distribution.

But in the current business environment, the risk reward balance for early stage investing in potentially transformative energy systems is unlikely to meet the market tests of traditional angel or VC investors.

MILAN Markets and capitalist incentives have great strengths in promoting economic efficiency, growth, and innovation. And, as Ben Friedman of Harvard University argued persuasively in his 2006 book The Moral Consequences of Growth, economic growth is good for open and democratic societies.

When it comes to public goods such as education, the environment, health care, and equal opportunity the record is not quite as impressive, and the political obstacles to improvement have seemed to grow as capitalist economies have matured.

The Communist government in China can no longer derive any legitimacy from Marxist, let alone Maoist, ideology. China is an authoritarian capitalist country, open for business with other capitalist countries (including deep economic relations with Japan).

Most families owned a house, so they were automatically participating in the boom. And many homeowners, eager to participate even more in the boom and feel like savvy capitalists, bought more expensive houses than they normally would.

But markets and capitalist incentives have clear weaknesses in ensuring stability, equity, and sustainability, which nbsp can adversely affect political and social cohesion.

Apart from a Community transitional period for the integration of the textile and clothing sector into the rules and disciplines of GATT, it is essential that within the Community and also for a transitional period, preferably coinciding with the other period referred to (which must be about 15 years), the system of national quotas must be maintained and that there must be appropriate machinery for avoiding excessive concentration of imports in certain markets.