Corporate Welfare

It's likely there "won't be any cotton growing in California 10 years from now," setting the stage for the next generation of Boswells to fallow the fields and sell water to Los Angeles.

President Bush has just signed the long-debated ethics bill, which Democrats are trumpeting as helping “drain the swamp” of corruption,

Which is a superior billing method: metered or unlimited bandwidth?

Imagine fires back against BigBand’s lawsuit — So BigBand sue

Here we are 138 years later with many people still believing in the economic virtues of subsidies from farm programs to energy development.

The Nation has posted an interesting article on how corporate conglomerates are ganging

A New York Times article “

Perkins called his job that of an economic hit man — the person who makes the initial case for the infrastructure development with such optimistic (and purposely misleading) biases that they become deals that cannot be refused.

Lay and Skilling are hardly alone. The difference is that they are going to prison. This was not a case of executives looting their company and then hiding those assets in offshore bank accounts and absconding with their ill-gotten gains. Instead, it was a case of executives who believed their own hype — and that of the financial press — and failed to apply the fundamentals of sound business practices to their decisions.

This second myth about market failure is again a call for interventionism and support for bigger government. Natural monopolies don’t exist. The theory was made up after the fact. The only monopolies existing are those propped up by government privilege.