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60 Minutes's Puff Piece on Crony Capitalist

Blog05/04/2015Mark Thornton

60 Minutes did a segment on David Rubinstein, one of the founders of Carlyle Group which was established in 1987. Carlyle is one of the largest private equity firm and the only major private equity firm to be based in Washington DC. The company controls enormous assets all over the globe and is...

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Intervention in One Lesson

Corporate WelfareInterventionismMonopoly and Competition

Blog04/24/2015Matthew McCaffrey

The story of intervention is as old as governments and commerce, and even though the details change, the basic narrative stays the same.

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New Audio Interviews, Plus FCC Releases 400 Pages of Internet Regs

Corporate WelfareFree MarketsInterventionism

Blog03/13/2015Ryan McMaken

In my recent article on net neutrality, I explained that...

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US National Debt Crosses $18 Trillion

Big GovernmentCorporate WelfareTaxes and SpendingU.S. EconomyFiscal Theory

Blog12/17/2014Mark Thornton

US National Debt now exceeds $18 Trillion with no end in sight. Will we see national default on the debt or hyperinflation?

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The Olympics: The Biggest Corporatist Sports Scam of All

Corporate WelfareMoney and BanksU.S. Economy

Blog10/31/2014Ryan McMaken

The 2022 Olympics (i.e., the Winter Games) is now down to only two applicant nations: China and Kazakhstan. This follows the withdrawal of Norway after the...

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CDC, PHARMA, And Mainstream Media On The Same Team

Corporate WelfareHealth

Blog10/17/2014Hunter Lewis

Unfortunately this team seems to be covering up a possible risk to children, especially black children.

For years, some parents of autistic children have claimed a link between their children’s condition and vaccines. One vaccine in particular has been...

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The Economics of Sports Stadiums

Corporate WelfareMedia and Culture

Blog10/16/2014Ryan McMaken

Mark Thornton discusses the crony capitalism of sports stadiums on Freedom Works Radio.

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Stick It in Your Earmark

Corporate WelfareInterventionismPolitical Theory

Blog09/18/2007Gary Galles

President Bush has just signed the long-debated ethics bill, which Democrats are trumpeting as helping "drain the swamp" of corruption, in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-SF) words. However it is hardly "the start of a new day in Washington" that Senator Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) called it....

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For Whom the Bandwidth Tolls

Corporate WelfareMedia and CultureInterventionism

Blog09/17/2007 Mises.org

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

Arguably the billing methods and cycles for a service boils down to a management decision, it is an issue of business models, therefore neither one is a priori "good" or "bad."

Oddly enough, this issue has...

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Inflammatory Patent Accusations!

Corporate WelfareInterventionism

Blog07/30/2007Stephan Kinsella

Imagine fires back against BigBand's lawsuit — So BigBand sues Imagine for patent infringement for video-processing and bandwidth-management techniques—before Imagine's initial product and technology have even been...