Is Modern Finance Ruining Modern Art? (Part 1): Mark C. Taylor - Bloomberg


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Is Modern Finance Ruining Modern Art? (Part 1): Mark C. Taylor
Bloomberg
As Andy Warhol declared almost four decades ago, “Business art is the step that comes after Art.” During the past several decades, however, this relationship has been transformed by the appearance of a new form of capitalism: finance capitalism.

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A Plutocrat Takes On the Plutocracy - New York Times (blog)


New York Times (blog)
A Plutocrat Takes On the Plutocracy
New York Times (blog)
By “people like me” he meant successful money managers whose capitalist bona fides mean that their arguments are more likely to be received as wisdom and financial tips rather than preachy, egg-headed hectoring. People are naturally much more ...

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Less than meets the eye in mortgage settlement - The Seattle Times


Globe and Mail
Less than meets the eye in mortgage settlement
The Seattle Times
About $20 billion is supposed to be "spent" by Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Ally Financial and Wells Fargo to help underwater homeowners refinance and give relief to others in danger of foreclosure. What this really means is open to ...
Blog: Mortgage settlement not all that great Legal News Line
But there are at least three big things the settlement will not do: Huffington Post
New Jersey Takes Home $838 Million from Foreclosure Settlement NJ Spotlight
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Romneyville and Financial Capitalism. - dagblog (blog)


The Atlantic
Romneyville and Financial Capitalism.
dagblog (blog)
But Romneyville is small potatoes in the much larger picture of a world wide oligarchy which is referred to by economists as Financial Capitalism, a mutation of traditional capitalism, a Gargantuan network of money men who make money with money, ...
Mitt Romney as Evil Capitalist Ken Doll The Moderate Voice
Romney's rivals give 'vulture capitalists' a pass San Francisco Chronicle
Extremism in Defense of Irony: By Romney's Radical Definition His Own Chief ... Huffington Post
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Financial Crisis American Gridlock, Why The “Left” And The “Right” Are Both Wrong - The Market Oracle

Financial Crisis American Gridlock, Why The “Left” And The “Right” Are Both Wrong
The Market Oracle
“What is happening in the credit markets today is a huge blow to the Anglo-Saxon model of transactions-oriented financial capitalism. A mixture of crony capitalism and gross incompetence has been on display in the core financial markets of New York and ...

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Designated Drivers: State Capitalism in China's Auto Industry - US-China Institute


US-China Institute
Designated Drivers: State Capitalism in China's Auto Industry
US-China Institute
China's unprecedented level of growth over the past three decades, combined with a financial crisis in the West, have led many to question whether free-market capitalism is the better system for generating sustainable economic growth.

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On state capitalism and China, Greece, cluster munitions, the super-rich, Facebook - The Economist

On state capitalism and China, Greece, cluster munitions, the super-rich, Facebook
The Economist
This is hard to square with the complex relationships between lawmakers, lobbyists, bankers, corporations, auditors, regulators and ratings agencies and the financial crisis we are now enduring. We impotently lament our crumbling infrastructure, ...

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