1: Barack Obama

Vacationing in a 30 million dollar mansion in warm hawaii while the rest of the country shivers and worries about money? Obama can do anything and the liberal press will kiss his rear end and smile.

Education is primarily taken, not given; it is at best well offered. Which sums up the failure of our national debate on education.

Well, ditto loans. Congress is decrying that 'the banks have all this money, but are not lending.' Is that the case, or is what they mean, 'under the old credit bubble/tear off credit rules?'

Ie, are drunken sailors finding it freshly tough at the newly spanked banks, and are folks with high credit scores accurately assessing the current free-for-some, and staying away from anything smacking of risking future skin in the current graceless clawing tribal mess?

How do you force beast building risk takers to risk their skin in the tribe's economies? You don't, and in fact, discourage them by throwing a free-for-some. If the tribe is throwing a graceless free-for-some, then the tribe is going to attract a lot of failure. When 'success' in America is redefined as 'proximity to connected cronies in DC', then DC will attract precisely what it is attracting; failures.

Atlas Shrugged was a cartoonish, romantic novel, with way too hopeful an ending. It's fun to nervously laugh at. But, we've already been treated to the once term of art 'save the industry as a whole,' so can the Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Rule be too far behind, and will it be proposed in order to 'save capitalism' in the next Big Lie? An analyst who correctly predicted the current mess has been telling his folks to head out of Dodge, to hunker down, to 'duck.' Not quite a strike, but close enough. We'll see if it matters.

I won't even begin to believe any of our tribal leaders have a clue, until they stop referring to our economies as 'The Economy.' I'm not holding my breath for Obama to 'save capitalism,' because I've never been alive at a time when I've seen much of it. It has been at least since FDR that we have lived under 'mixed economies' goodness, and yet I have to wonder: At the top of every Mixed Economist's List of Important Things To Do, isn't "Beware of Monopolies" like #1 on the list?

And yet, our fascists are propping up entities 'too big to let fail.'

And yet, our fascists are using FNMA and GNMA SEC EXEMPT, AGENCY RATED GSEs to brush aside 50 sets of more strongent state banking regulations.

If monopolies are everybody's bobbing their heads bad ideas to let loose in our economies, then how good can monopolies with guns be?

We love our monopolists with guns, and are begging for more as we speak. We've asked the arsonists to come in and help fight the fire they started, but not without first handing them all a Mobil Speedpass.

obama needs to restore the ideals of the society that stood for the land of free and brave -not the fascists and the boars -
never mind if it annihilates capitalism WHICH survives in the form of SUV S

Wall street bolted to the hip of K-Street backed by monopolists with guns is not capitalism; it is fascism.
Business interests tied to the guns of government are monopolists with guns; fascists.
I'm damn glad this nation stood up its own soft fascist beast in 1941, to face down meat eating totalitarian alternatives. A nation half our present size put 16 million of themselves into uniform, borrowed the equivalent of over $3T in today's dollars to ramp up the Arsenal of Democracy, and left over 400,000 of themselves in a meatgrinder. We owe them every free world economic opportunity that their actions enabled since. But in so doing, we stood up our own soft fascist self feeding beast, and it has never stood down since. There is not a special breed of people called 'the fascists' that live only in Europe. 'The fascists' are who inevitably come running to the guns and business crony free-for-some that the tribe unleashes for any cause, including, really good ones. I'm not sure the Greatets Generation would have left all those legs in Normandy if they realized taht when it came to Totalitarianism, their clueless kids were quietly going to preside over the Totalitarian equivalent of Macy's buying Gimbel's We don't and have not had 'nearly enough beast building capitalism' in this country for decades. We have had,. at most 'carcass carving capitalism, and when increasingly bolted up to the guns of government, carcass carving fascism. Too often, our brainy elites sprint from the Ivies to Wall Street to stare at the scoreboard and bet on the game using OPM, with no skin in i, and then dream up financial engineering nonsense, enabled by their self awarded 3000% leverage rules, aka, license to steal. We have a dearth of beast building risk takers(limited as they are to a more reasonable 15% asset value leverage constraint), and a flood of carcass carvers, that is what has become of 'capitalism' in America. Well, our economies long tolerated a certain amount of carcass carvng, and scoreboard betting, and other forms of parasitism, and now, just a little, the bones are beginning to show. An odd corollary to Gresham's law is in effect in our tribal free-for-some, and that is, drunken sailor borrowers have displaced beast building risk takers. Few sane risk taking beast builders are interested in risking future skin in the current tribal free-for-some the tribe is trying to throw, and if Obama figures that out, then he has a prayer of 'saving capitalism.' If not, he's the midwife of the coming Mad Max World.

What a joke a Socialist trying to save Capitalism!

Fareed is certainly whistling a different tune about Capitalism and USG policy in this writing.

Why is Bill Gates out of the 50 llist????

anyway i think it really is UNO that can resolve kashmir with world opinion according to the will of kashmiris ,

mr obama if sincere can help but since it looks like india wants to keep kashmir as it then controls all the 5 rivers which water and feed pakistan and can attain a dictatorial stance as a bully in the subcontinent ,
it will be impossible to attain a kashmir solution ,

it can only be solved if china russia and america are behind the effort as
obama himself has no chance alone

Everybody, Have a great Christmas!

those of us who are real capitalists don't need a savior-politician or "the one" in any form.

we need only our own good judgment and honesty to prosper and while we welcome fair regulations and another set of eyes from the government as to the safety and soundness of certain types of businesses, what we don't need is a bunch of corrupt politicians on the take in the form of campaign contributions from lobbyists to lecture us or to decide what is wise, because bribe taking is usually not the path to wisdom.

keevan d. morgan, chicago

The white leaders have ruined capitalism and now a black man is supposed to save it... Dr. King's laugh is echoing in heaven, and it's not his last!