News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits

[David Morris]

http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/1399600.html

A look back at the best business books of 2009
Business Monday books columnist Richard Pachter offers his highly
subjective list of favorites.

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back.
Douglas Rushkoff. Random House. 304 pages. 6/15/09

The “operating system” behind the world’s economies and monetary
systems is flawed and antithetical to productivity and most other
human values. Greed, avarice and (unenlightened) self-interest
flourish. So do artificial scarcity, perpetual debt and empty
allegiance to the slogans and logos of oppressive corporations. A less
elegant and gifted writer might have produced a dour and plodding
polemic against materialism and consumerist culture, but Rushkoff’s
persuasive prose is a pleasure.

> Thu, January 21, 2010 -- 10:11 AM ET
> Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits
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> The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in federal campaigns.