Posted on 10/08/2020 9:36:19 AM PDT by JV3MRC
Wall Street veteran and Alpha Investor Editor Charles Mizrahi talked to MRC Business about his frustrations with the media’s leftist agenda using the coronavirus to attack American capitalism.
Talking heads like Financial Times Editor-in-Chief Roula Khalaf had argued that “capitalism needs a reset.” The socialist-loving FT Editorial Board had said that “Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy.” Mizrahi, an observant Jew, wasn’t buying any of it. He argued based on a powerful op-ed he wrote for RealClearReligion headlined “Prosperity and Generosity: The Biblical Roots of Capitalism.” His main point is that the media is “just plain wrong. They’re using a hammer when they should be using a screwdriver. The government is not for that.”
Mizrahi laid out his case why American capitalism is the most moral of any approach to deal with the economic recovery. Mizrahi’s question to the media: “Where do we have a better system? Could you point me in the direction of a better system than our capitalist system built on Judeo-Christian values?”
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Capitalism only works for a culture constrained by judeo Christian values. In all other iterations it is horribly unfair and dangerous.
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