Even if investors possess all three of these abilities, it will all be for naught if they do not have a fourth one: the emotional discipline to execute their planned strategy faithfully, come hell, high water, or the apparent
end of capitalism as we know it.
Some bears say scenes like these Greece riots herald
the end of capitalism as we know it (Photo: Yannis Behrakis / Reuters)
Not exact matches
Lewis and Klein — no friends
of global
capitalism — portray the workers
as revolutionaries, sticking it to the Man by doing an
end - run around the evils
of modern business.
The currencies
of laboring fundaments revolving around systemic issuances
of the civil and even the moral duties may one day dry out and we here in the USA will find the
ends means
of welfare
capitalisms to be
as a blockage within status quo partisanships giving rises to and toward just the opposite
of long nurtured agendas within passive welfare issues long held holdings.
As for sighting the definitive
end and collapse
of capitalism» well, here at the
end of the first week in June, the U.S. economy has not yet reached the low point
of 1983.
The authors proclaimed that in this situation the long debate among Christians
as to the more Christian way
of ordering society is
ended, and it is time now both to endorse corporate
capitalism and to devote our Christian energies to working in and with it.
On the one hand, insofar
as traditional beliefs could be «useful» to secular
ends (i.e., the rise
of capitalism) they were reshaped into a supportive religious ideology (i.e., the Protestant ethic).
With the coming
of television, people were further encouraged to meet the needs
of capitalism: to consume without
end, to use up, throw away and buy again; to repress individuality so
as to not question the process which provided an endless stream
of products; to seek the immediate and the sensational, changing the channel every few seconds if it did not provide immediate stimulation; and, above all, never to ask questions about the real meaning
of the system itself.
If anyone seriously thinks Vince Cable believes in the inevitable
end of capitalism, they are
as detached from reality
as some who does believe in it.
Labour,
capitalism and consumption dynamics
as explored by Beier find their natural echo in the Foundation's building, a former furniture factory built at the
end of the 19th century, and now operating
as an art gallery.
Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system
of political economy, referred to here
as modern
capitalism, is destructive
of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where,
as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern
capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself
as «the irresistible rise
of global anti-
capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing
of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement
of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds
of change through a host
of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the
end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning
of today's
capitalism.»
The long - decline
of capitalism -
as - we - know - it, the new science shows, began some decades ago, and is on track to accelerate well before the
end of the 21st century.