Bribery is as American as apple pie. By Donald Kaul I’ve never been a great fan of Walmart. I like little towns, towns where Main Street is lined with small shops and stores — drugstores, hardware stores, a café where you can get breakfast or lunch, maybe a clothing store or two — that kind …
Tag Archive: capitalism
Permanent link to this article: http://www.easttexasreview.com/walmarts-unsurprising-bribes/
Jan 19
Vulture capitalism or populist demagoguery?
By Pat Buchanan “They’re vultures that are sitting out there on the tree limb, waiting for a company to get sick, and then they swoop in … eat the carcass … and … leave the skeleton.” So Rick Perry colorfully characterized the private equity firm Bain Capital, once run by Mitt Romney. How did Bain …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.easttexasreview.com/vulture-capitalism-or-populist-demagoguery/
Jan 05
In defense of capitalism
By Tom Flannery “Those who don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it.” That well-known adage may end up being America’s epitaph, if we continue along the road we’re on from a capitalist to a socialist system. It is a road to nowhere. The socialist experiment was actually undertaken by the Pilgrims when they …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.easttexasreview.com/in-defense-of-capitalism/
Oct 05
Free the college football market
College football pretends it’s about boola-boola, but it’s really all about ka-ching ka-ching. By Donald Kaul The burlesque show that is college football has gone about as far as it can go. Each fall it arrives clothed in garments of academic integrity (the players are scholar-athletes, don’t you know) only to peel them off one …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.easttexasreview.com/free-the-college-football-market/