10 Best Movies with Capitalist Themes

Outsourcing — sending manufacturing or services work abroad where it can be done more cheaply — can be a tough sell in the best of times. It’s even more of a challenge when jobs in the U.S. are already hard to find, making it painful to think of precious jobs being shipped overseas. If only…

5. Value Value is subjective. A bottle of water is worth a lot more to a man dying of thirst in the desert than it is to the man who lives next to a natural spring. When a natural disaster hits, the media often chastises those who bring in water and food from outside areas…

Given the actions of the Federal Reserve, particularly over the last twenty years or so, we have become accustomed to the fixing of interest rates as normal. Indeed, there appear to be benefits for many from such policies, at least in the near term. After all, given mortgage rates as low as 2% to 3%,…

9. Canada on Strike When the Writer’s Guild of America went on strike in 2007-08 it did a lot to affect television programming and the plots to several series. It did not achieve, however, its goal of getting writers a share of internet revenues. In this satirical jab at the Guild, the World Canadian Bureau…

Photo by Recuerdos de Pandora 8. Vladimir Lenin of Russia/USSR Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary who served as head of the new Bolshevik government from 1917 until his death in 1924. He laid the foundations of modern dictatorship and consolidated the state imprisonment of a whole society, its economy, and its culture….

We hear about it all the time. After a natural disaster, or during times of civil unrest such that transpired recently in Ferguson, businesses price gouge items in high demand. Water or a ride away from a dangerous area become expensive commodities. The instinct is to chastise such actions as immoral and selfish. But a…