consumerism
Whatever happened to a penny saved is a penny earned? Ok, I’m Mexican, so we’re gonna’ have to talk pesos, but you get my drift; what the hell happened?
The world is in crisis; I know it’s pretty easy to sit back on our asses and blame all...
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It seemed so obvious for a few years, back when the Berlin Wall had just fallen, that democratic capitalism would be the only way left for a developing country to...
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Stephen Colbert and his astute topical show reminded me of an article in The Economist I read about Objectivism founder and novelist Ayn Rand. Ms. Rand is most famous...
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Growing up in America I believed, as with many. that the “forgotten man” is the when whom politicians always speaking about helping. The “man”...
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President Barack Obama - prior to his election the most liberal senator- wasted scant time before his announced his intention to raise taxes on the wealthy.
For...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy hit out Thursday at financial speculators for having “perverted” capitalism, which he said should be overhauled with a new...
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After injecting sums with gazillion zeros into the sclerotic global financial system, European-style socialism and communist China’s capitalism are sounding the death...
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Capitalism as we used to know it is on its deathbed. And those who predicted that the old brand, the unfettered, American-promoted system, was a danger to the world,...
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Germany will provide as much as 500 billion euros ($681 billion) in loan guarantees and capital to bolster the banking system, the country’s biggest government...
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Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social...
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A Secret Memo from John McCain to Sarah Palin
Dear Sarah,
You are doing a good job distracting them. Today, I want you to walk up to the podium and call for the...
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Is it really a fact or we just perceive it that way. Was the USA always a superpower or it has just behaved like one, I mean here the attitude. Brand America is...
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The United States government has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into private banks and insurance companies to essentially save the United States and world...
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In many ways, America has remained the forefront of the capitalist movement. If there is a laboratory where research on capitalism is taking place it is here in...
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With regards to the differences between the families of today and those of before, various causes for the deteriorating family ties can be studied on standard averages...
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In a new tape to be released soon to the media, it is expected that Al Qaeda will call for the use of chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons against the West.
This...
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Whatever happened to the Great Depression? Not the real one from 70 years ago, the lost decade of unimagined misery and Steinbeckian angst, the worst period in the...
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Recently we are experiencing a great sense of exhilaration and excitement on the front pages of all news papers. This whole excitement has produced a vehement amount of...
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“Is it love or is it Fancy Feast?” I’ll choose option three: it’s fucking stupid.
If there was ever a moment when perhaps American consumerism...
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Ron Rust and Beve Kozub were poking around the toy booths at China’s biggest trade fair two years ago when something caught their eye: pouty-faced baby dolls...
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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, a strict anti-American and a firm advocate of socialism, with his socialist mode of thinking and preaching of anti-imperialism has...
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While we talk of getting modernised in last 62 years of country’s indepedence, comments of 85-year-old women, one of the first lady in Ludhiana city to get...
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“It’s coming around again the slowly creeping hand of time and it’s command...”
So begins the lyrics of a song I have always enjoyed -...
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On what is traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year, Black Friday which marks the opening of the “Christmas” shopping season, we learned a very...
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Is it really a fact or we just perceive it that way. Was the USA always a superpower or it has just behaved like one, I mean here the attitude. Brand America is...
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Meet Denis Ruharo, an entrepreneur with a master’s degree, a man who carries a BlackBerry and two Nokia cellphones,
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SOMETIMES THE ENQUIRER IS RIGHT
or…
(How To Become A Media Consumer)
Toronto - In an August 8/08...
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CONSUMERISM AND WOMEN’S DILEMMA
ARVIND K PANDEY
New changes ushered in by the globalisation have brought a sea change in the mannerism of the...
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A hiatus exists between the five-star ( or seven star?) health care provided at exorbitant costs by the elite hospitals-usually outside the reach of the majority of the...
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“Is it love or is it Fancy Feast?” I’ll choose option three: it’s fucking stupid.
If there was ever a moment when perhaps American consumerism...
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YES
# Valentine’s Day is supposed to be about love and tenderness, but it has turned into a holiday driven with competition, hyper-consumerism and dashed hopes.
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made popular Feb 13 2008
As a nation are we getting increasingly greedy?
The Times of India reports of a survey which presents some stark truths.
We are buying more, and often buying...
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Did you ever think the Apple’s iPhone would sell for a whopping $100,000? Has the consumerism gone nuts? Not really. At a ‘Keep a child Alive...
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The computer industry is encouraging its campaign against electronic waste, a hazardous offshoot of technology’s persistent growth. Last year, in the month of...
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Child development experts hold the view that certain physical and behavioral changes that epitomizes teens have now been shifted towards ‘tweens’, that is,...
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This is what I call the clear-cut influence of TV and movies on the kids market which is in turn effecting the little consumers who form an integral part of potential...
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If your kid say ‘I am bored’, you can easily dubbed this sentence as buy me something or take me to an exciting trip. Of course kids always have a list of...
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I was reading The Power of Want: It Costs by Chris. I want to share some thoughts with him.
We all want the latest. People queue up from the dead of the night to get...
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