U.S. Taxpayers Have Been Forced to Pay Over $3.2 Billion on Sports Stadiums
Public financing of private boondoggles isn't just a local issue, according to new report from Brookings Institution.
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Dairy Lobby Sides with Florida in Orwellian Attempt to Redefine 'Skim Milk'
According to state regulators, skim milk = skim milk + mandated additives.
Will a Zombie Congress Devour Our Gains?
Well...more than the non-zombie Congress already does.
Licensing Rules Hold Back Hair Braiders and the Economy
Sixteen states require hair braiders to get cosmetology licenses, which cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and require at least 1,000 hours of training.
How Government Cronies Redefined the Catfish
An industry clamored for more regulation-because it had a financial interest in doing so.
Quebec Publicly Financed an Arena to Get an NHL Team. You Won't Believe What Happened Next.
Actually, you can probably guess what happened.
Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman Doesn't Want the Public to Fund Stadiums
Star cornerback and Stanford grad says "make the billionaires who actually benefit from the stadiums pay for them."
Cobb County Has No Money Left for Public Parks Because They Gave it All to the Atlanta Braves
Voters supported funding parks, but not a billionaire's ballpark.
Bondholders Never Bothered to Vet Curt Schilling's 38 Studios' Finances Because They Knew Taxpayers Would Pay
Taxpayer-guaranteed loans (with interest) are always a safe bet for lenders.
Cuomo Billion Dollar NY Economic Redevelopment Program Investigated for Corruption
Who knew money wielded by government was dangerous?
The Military Is About to Buy A Lot of New Balance Shoes. Thank Cronyism.
The company can exploit an advantage created by foolish protectionist laws to sell cheaper shoes and capture more consumers.
The Yard Goats are a Farm Team Without a Farm
The centerpiece of Hartford's $400 million development misses another deadline.
Crony Capitalists, Place Your Bets on the Wire Act
Some people want gambling legal, but only at their own casinos.
Taxpayers Spent $34 Million on a Minor League Hockey Arena. Two Years Later, The Team is Leaving
A regular reminder to never publicly finance pro sports teams' real estate.
Atlanta Braves Are a Terrible Baseball Team, But "A Fairly Major Real Estate Business"
Small-town Southern taxpayers subsidize minor league ballparks for baseball's worst team.
SpaceX Foots the Bill for 2018 Mission to Mars
Elon Musk is working with NASA to hustle an unmanned mission to the Red Planet. But he's writing the checks.
Elon Musk, Crony Capitalist
The billionaire should spend his own money, not the taxpayers'.
Town Supervisor Allegedly Ripped Off His Constituents to Build Baseball Stadium
Feds say he committed fraud to make citizens pay for a ballpark they overwhelmingly voted to not publicly finance.
Congress and Crony Capitalists Want to Take Over the Contact Lens Market
Special interests collude with government to hurt consumers.
The Crony Capitalists of Craft Beer
How independent breweries are mooching off state subsidies.
GE CEO Fighting Back on Bernie Sanders' Anti-Corporate Rhetoric
While Hillary Clinton starts to call into question whether Sanders understands banking policy.
Charles Koch's Friendly Letter to Bernie Sanders Complicates Campaign 2016's Effort to Make Us All Dumb
Common concerns over crony capitalism and criminal justice, different solutions, and a thinly veiled warning shot to Republicans
How Ted Cruz Defeated Iowa's Ethanol Cartel
His strategy wasn't lovely, but it was a blow to crony capitalism.
Marco Rubio's Sweet Protectionism
The 2016 hopeful gives the feds cover to keep propping up Big Sugar.
LA Rams Should Pay Back Public Funds to Missouri, Sen. McCaskill Says
The Democratic lawmaker is drafting a bill requiring refunds from teams who skip town after accepting public financing.
Brooklyn's Barclays Center is an Eminent Domain-Created Failure
Politicians and developers stole a neighborhood to build it, but it loses money and revitalized nothing.
3 NFL Teams Wait in Limbo, Possibly Moving to LA. But Why Would LA Want Any of Them?
Never finance billionaires' vanity projects with public money.
The Great Escape from Poverty
Newly minted economics Nobel laureate Angus Deaton worries crony capitalism will kill off economic growth.
Left and Right Should Condemn Crony Capitalist War on Herbalife
William Ackman's self-serving activism is shameful.
Let Us Now Praise Alan Grayson For Standing Against Cronyism
Florida representative the only House Dem to vote against reauthorizing Export-Import Bank.
House Pushes Forward to Reauthorize Export-Import Bank, Crown Jewel of Crony Capitalism
If this is how a Republican-led Congress acts, who do they think they're kidding when they talk about limited government?
Mets vs. Royals is the World Series of Misers and Moochers
Owners who won't invest in their teams but take hundreds of millions in public financing face-off in the Fall Classic.
Documenting Humanity's Great Escape from Abject Poverty: Angus Deaton
The Economics Nobel Laureate worries that crony capitalism will kill off economic growth
Crony Capitalists and Special Interests Dragging Down U.S. Economic Growth
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson makes the case.
Radley Balko, Veronique de Rugy Named to 'The Politico 50' List of Visionaries 'transforming American politics'
Magazine cites their roles in freeing a death row inmate and shuttering the Ex-Im Bank
New York State Cracking Down on Times Square Topless Women
Crony capitalism and the nanny state work together to clamp down on free expression and commerce
What Makes a Billionaire Bad? Just Add Government.
Cronyism, not the free market, is what makes income inequality harmful.
Why Does Cadbury Chocolate Taste Worse In America?
An overzealous FDA and a bitter trademark battle keep British expats from enjoying their favorite sweets.
Ted Cruz Calls Mitch McConnell a Bald-Faced Liar, Thunders Against Ex-Im Bank
The best speech you'll see the Texas senator make
Spilled Milk
A brief history of the dairy lobby's unwholesome influence on the U.S. Supreme Court
Beyond the Export-Import Bank: This Is the Next Corporate Welfare Program We Should Cut
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is ripe for termination.
Crony-Capitalist Export-Import Bank Loses Authorization for First Time in 81 Years!
The reprieve is temporary, but it's still a victory against corporatism at its worst.
