David Brooks, The Whigs, and Corporate Welfare
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.
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.
Section Two: Politics and Thieves. Narrated by Harold L. Fritsche.
The Obama administration inserted language into the 2012 fiscal cliff bill that enabled GE to avoid paying much federal income tax.
Interviewed by Scott Horton, Mark Thornton discusses life in crony-capitalist America, where Wall Street gets bailouts and interest-free money and
The government’s relationship with Monsanto is a prime example of crony capitalism.
The state rarely misses an opportunity to use crisis to its advantage and crony capitalism has become one of the largest benefactors of government fixes.
Come one, come all, and learn the five best ways to create a monopoly.
Those who condemn the free market take for granted that the present order of things is the free market in action.
The Fed decides, through a Politburo of planners sitting in Washington, how much liquidity is necessary and what the interest rate should be.
The biggest capitalists, those “economic royalists” of Wall Street, have been the deadliest enemies of true capitalism.