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rucky

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Sat Oct-03-09 03:47 PM
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22. I think you nailed it.

I'm wondering what half the leaders on the big board actually produce or provide that is of value to an actual consumer.

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-Want to know what went wrong with American capitalism? The "portfolio model".	HamdenRice	Oct-03-09 12:39 PM	#0
- Thorstein Veblen	Turbineguy	Oct-03-09 01:06 PM	#1
- We'll also need the system to be run by engineers if we're going to make stuff	HamdenRice	Oct-03-09 01:09 PM	#3
- And the Moore movie proves the point	nadinbrzezinski	Oct-03-09 01:28 PM	#7
- A DU review prompted me to write this	HamdenRice	Oct-03-09 01:30 PM	#8
- He is, but he does not realize that it wasn't capitalism either	nadinbrzezinski	Oct-03-09 01:33 PM	#9
- John Kenneth Galbraith was famous for his analysis of the 60s economy	HamdenRice	Oct-03-09 01:35 PM	#10
- why I refuse to call it capitalism and prefer the more apropo term	nadinbrzezinski	Oct-03-09 01:38 PM	#11
- hence, The Love Story part. Capitalism must have been grand in the 50s.	nashville_brook	Oct-03-09 03:46 PM	#21
- Haven't seen the movie yet, but that's why I wrote the post	HamdenRice	Oct-03-09 03:58 PM	#23
- The christian right is their PR arm.	anonymous171	Oct-03-09 01:18 PM	#5
- Veblen was a genius.	Odin2005	Oct-03-09 06:24 PM	#27
- k*r Excellent insight	autorank	Oct-03-09 01:08 PM	#2
- EXCELENT..!! even my Prozac'd out wife read it and was totally impressed with it's insight.. THANKS	sam sarrha	Oct-03-09 01:15 PM	#4
- Great insight!	laughingliberal	Oct-03-09 01:23 PM	#6
- Before the term Disaster Capitalism was coined,	Kaleko	Oct-03-09 01:48 PM	#12
- Excellent point! n/t	AntiFascist	Oct-03-09 02:06 PM	#13
- Interesting way of looking at it...	ljm2002	Oct-03-09 02:26 PM	#14
- you might like this...	lame54	Oct-03-09 02:40 PM	#19
- Your analogy is spot on. Very visual, so it packs an emotional punch	Kaleko	Oct-03-09 03:13 PM	#20
- Great OP!	Quantess	Oct-03-09 02:31 PM	#15
- It used to be that the guy that ran the company that made widgets....	Bonhomme Richard	Oct-03-09 02:34 PM	#16
- Lee Iaccoca is the archetypal example.	Odin2005	Oct-03-09 06:32 PM	#28
- So true	HughMoran	Oct-03-09 02:36 PM	#17
- way before that...	lame54	Oct-03-09 02:39 PM	#18
- I think you nailed it.	rucky	Oct-03-09 03:47 PM	#22
- Kick for an insightful post.	Kaleko	Oct-03-09 05:32 PM	#24
- "Pretend to be profitable quarter to quarter"	AllentownJake	Oct-03-09 05:37 PM	#25
- We need to go back to the engineers running things. The finance people fucked things up.	Odin2005	Oct-03-09 06:16 PM	#26

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