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Barry C. Lynn's "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction" - by Stephen Lendman Lynn is director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and author of "Too Big to Fail" about the dangers of monopoly capitalism. He expands on the threat in his newest book titled, "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction," explaining today's peril given the power of predatory giants. They control governments, the courts, war and peace, dominant information sources, and essential ...
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Legislation enacted by the federal and various state governments to regulate trade and commerce by preventing unlawful restraints, price-fixing, and monopolies, to promote competition, and to encourage the production of quality goods and services at the lowest prices, with the primary goal of safeguarding public welfare by ensuring that consumer demands will be met by the manufacture and sale of goods at reasonable prices. Antitrust law seeks to make businesses compete fairly. It has had a serious effect on business practices and the organization of U.S. industry. Premised on the belief that free trade benefits the economy, ...
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I think Barack Obama will win a majority of delegates on Tuesday, and if that happens, I think Hillary will see that she has no path to the nomination I think she'd want to quit this race on her own terms. Moreover, at the end of the day, the fighting over the legacy of the Clinton Administration does us no good as a party. We need to never forget how much better the Clinton years were than the Bush years years and the Reagan years, not just for the country but for the world. This is an important part of the story we have as a party to explain to the American public why we should be once again entrusted with the White House.
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Gordon brown said this in April 2008: " it is understandable - and this is what we have got to deal with - that in Europe and America worries exist. It is worrying that the dominant response is not to welcome this new competition, but that people are in fear of their jobs and their livelihoods.We see in America, particular, protectionist sentiment growing. This raises the question as to whether in response to this more testing global economic outlook the world will relapse into the counter-productive but familiar defensive and negative protectionism. under the illusion that people can stop change, they will deny themselves ...
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