Corporate Welfare

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Sports Stadiums: Temples to Crony Capitalism

10/03/2014Mises Daily ArticlesSalmaan A. Khan

As one of the most subsidized non-profit organizations in American history, the NFL excels at tackling the American taxpayer.

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Subsidies, Market Prices, and the 2014 Farm Bill

Big GovernmentCorporate WelfareEntrepreneurshipPrices

10/01/2014Mises Daily ArticlesDick Clark

2014’s new US Farm Bill eliminates many direct subsidies to farmers, while replacing them with subsidized insurance programs. This will lead to higher costs for taxpayers and distorted markets in the future.

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Higher Ed Cronyism in Serbia: A Case Study

Corporate WelfareGlobal Economy

08/15/2014Mises Daily ArticlesPredrag Rajsic

One of the most common ways in which cronyism manifests itself in Serbia is when professional degrees and employment positions are awarded based on political party membership , and not on the basis of professional expertise.

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Tax Cuts Are Only for the Powerful

Corporate WelfareWorld HistoryInterventionismPolitical Theory

08/12/2014Audio/VideoCrosby Kemper IIIRex Sinquefield

Politicians tell us that tax cuts aren't necessary for economic growth. But when a politically-powerful company offers to move to town and hire people, the politicians fall all over themselves to offer a tax cut. Ordinary business owners, meanwhile, get no such offers, writes Crosby Kemper III and...

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Why the Cost of Government Is Higher Than You Think

Big GovernmentCorporate WelfareInterventionism

05/28/2014Mises Daily ArticlesGary Galles

When governments spend, regulate, and tax, they decrease household take-home pay while diverting savings and investment to the government class.

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Cartels and Subsidies in Canadian Agriculture

Corporate WelfareLegal SystemInterventionism

05/22/2014Mises Daily ArticlesPredrag Rajsic

Canadian agricultural policy today subsidizes and controls markets in grain, dairy, and other products to ensure profitability.

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Crony Capitalism and the Transcontinental Railroads

Corporate WelfareU.S. History

03/10/2014Mises Daily ArticlesRyan McMaken

The first transcontinentals were all creatures, not of capitalism or the private markets, but of government.

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David Brooks, The Whigs, and Corporate Welfare

Corporate WelfareU.S. HistoryOther Schools of Thought

02/06/2014Mises Daily ArticlesThomas J. DiLorenzo

The NYT gets it wrong again. We are told the Whigs, the original crony capitalists, were the voice of the common man against a tyrannical government. Hogwash.