Corporate Welfare

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Douglas French

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.

Gary Galles

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

Mises.org

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

Mark A. Pribonic

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

Jeffrey A. Tucker

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

Christopher Westley

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.

William L. Anderson

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.