Has free market capitalism failed?

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• well any thing too free fails
  capitalism has failed
  you can sell your organs if there are buyers for them

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  by sharpjwe on December 1st, 2008

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• for sure it is the norm in the states and it has failed

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  by sharpjwe on February 20th, 2009

• Not true on either count.

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  by Cyanotic Wasp on February 20th, 2009

• well how do you explain that american banks have failed
  if it is not the sytem of capitalism ?
  and all teh greed that comes with it .
  ameriaca is now in debt of 100% of GDP how can you pay that back ?

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  by sharpjwe on February 22nd, 2009

• You persist in this delusion that the US has been in any way associated with "free market capitalism". I don't know what you've been reading -- or smoking -- but that is not true at all. What IS in the process of failing, if it hasn't failed already, is the so-called "regulatory system" that keeps us from any kind of free market capitalism, and our government monetary system, which will fail Zimbabwe-style as soon as we do try to repay that indebtedness.
   
  Individual bank failures do not mean that the system has failed. It's our refusal to LET banks and other institutions fail that will bring down the system -- and which reinforce what I'm saying, that we do NOT have a free market at work.

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  by Cyanotic Wasp on February 23rd, 2009

• i never smoke thanks
  banks should be llowed to fail we agree .
  the free market is all the futures and all the wall street products sold that are just WIND and cheats.
  that was free market . the banks an dfinacial institutions should not be allowed to issue all these fake trading product just to produce fake wealth.

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  by sharpjwe on February 24th, 2009

• This discussion is over. Your persistence, I see, is simple adherence to a muddled political and moralistic point of view, wholly divorced from rationality, fundamental economics ... or capitalism, for that matter. We obviously can't even agree on definitions, and you only seem to delight -- in some kind of half-assed and self-righteous way -- at the capital and monetary problems that the US (and most of the rest of the world with us) is currently facing. Enjoy that while you can, because we'll pull out of this sooner than you think, the world will be back to what we perceive as "normal", and you can go on pretending that "you're better than all of that" in your poverty.

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  by Cyanotic Wasp on February 25th, 2009

• i am not poor
  i ride on the system.
  i have more than average income and far above average hard earned assets . so i fear not the system ..
  the USD is worth 0
  USA is close to been bankrupt .
  tha capitalist system ( greed for the rich has failed ).
  lets be fair and give all those who work a propper income .

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  by sharpjwe on February 25th, 2009

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• as long as humans have greed
  all will fail

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  by sharpjwe on August 18th, 2009

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• yes and like all pyramids the bottom is wider that the top
  still has it failed ?i say yes it has failed
  like all other isms it seems

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  by sharpjwe on November 6th, 2008

• Or suceeded like oll other isms.
  
  You name me something better?
  
  Sure Id like to start with utopia - but even God didn't make that work.

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  by The_Professional on November 6th, 2008

• well for me a mixed capitalism with social balance sounds good
  communism is fine in the book but cannot stand a minute with greedy humans. as for gods more death are in their names than good deeds.

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  by sharpjwe on November 6th, 2008

• Post-Mosdernist - everything has a consequences.
  
  Still I agree - I think at the very leas dental should be shared. We all have teeth, or at least should have.
  
  Still I want my novacaine when getting a filling - In exchange I'll let them have their God while giving in to fairness and a form of society that doesn't consider discrimination its foundation.

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  by The_Professional on November 7th, 2008

• i too want a fair society where all are free to respect others

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  by sharpjwe on November 8th, 2008

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• give the bankers an other bonus
  on money they get from the taxpayer
  sure that is perfect and sound

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  by sharpjwe on October 18th, 2009

• I am fine with giving bonuses to banks who paid back the tax payers money with interest like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan chase

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  by Henderson on October 19th, 2009

• but how can they make so much money?
  there is somthing wrong!

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  by sharpjwe on October 22nd, 2009

• No, the money was making by simply trading. The market increased more than 20% - 30% during last quarter. So money making is very simple under those circumstances.

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  by Henderson on October 23rd, 2009

• what happen for the market to go up
  did the unemployed get jobs
  or did they find cash under the seat
  they are all playing a big lying game
  and deserve to be juged for all the deceit

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  by sharpjwe on October 24th, 2009

• usually market goes up before unemployment goes down, and also market also goes down before unemployment goes up. The market is a leading indicator. So unemployment rate, etc.. are lagging indicators and it will take time to those indicators to start moving. And market going up is not determined by one or two persons but it is due to more demand from all the investors.

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  by Henderson on October 25th, 2009

• it is a big casion for the rich
  to make money on the poor
  REVOLUTION and GUILLOTINE
  is what we need again

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  by sharpjwe on October 26th, 2009

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