Crisis of the US capitalist model

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Crisis of the US capitalist model

These articles highlight some of the limits of the US model of capitalism, touted as definitive in the 1990s. The model is devoted to the principle that the single-minded pursuit of profit acts in everyone's best interest.

Shilling for pharmaceuticals (8/12)

Will stagnant wages prevent US economic recovery?

The IMF is unhappy with the US economy and Bush administration policies (8/5)

The US is having trouble attracting foreign capital. (8/3)

How serious is the problem of US national debt?

Protests in Peru against free market capitalism. It isn't altogether coincidental that disillusionment with neoliberalism in Latin America is setting in at the time as the crisis of US corporations. (7/18)

US corporations try to control post-purchase use of products, with negative effects (7/4)

The Observer on the crisis of US capitalism (6/30)

Questions abroad about the US business model China displacing the US in East Asian economy(6/28)

Walmarts doesn't pay its workers for all the work they do (6/25)

Will a rapidly falling dollar trigger a global economic crisis? (6/13)

No political will to change accounting laws in the US (6/10)

Executives make sure that felony offenses don't stop them from getting paid (6/8)

Boom of the nineties failed to lift all boats (6/5)

White collar crime on the rise (6/1)

Health Insurance industry critiques the pharmaceutical industry (5/29)

Bush, Enron, Argentina (5/25)