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Crony Capitalism

The Game is Rigged, Regardless of Who’s in Charge

June 23, 2014 by Cathy R.

There’s too much money in politics, right? Lawrence Lessig has a new plan to solve an old problem. He wants to end money’s outsize influence on the political process, which subverts democracy and drowns out the masses to do the bidding of the well-to-do few. Most people are taking issue with his method of attack, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electoral Politics Tagged: Crony Capitalism, Electoral Politics

Conservatives Don’t Need New Ideas, They Need to Implement the Old Ones

June 11, 2014 by Cathy R.

On the heels of the Bloomberg piece entitled Do Conservatives Have Any New Ideas? comes the report, Room to Grow, described by Jonah Goldberg as something you can slap people with who say conservatives have no new ideas. But the ideas in the report aren’t really particularly new, or, in many cases, and more importantly, … [Read more…]

Posted in: corporatism Tagged: Conservatism, Crony Capitalism

Don’t Regulate Me Bro!

May 27, 2014 by Cathy R.

A new working paper from libertarian think tank CEI called, hilariously, Tip of the Costberg: On the Invalidity of All Cost of Regulation Estimates and the Need to Compile Them Anyway, reveals that regulations cost American businesses $1.863 trillion annually. While that number is staggering, something somewhat buried in the blog post on the report … [Read more…]

Posted in: corporatism Tagged: Crony Capitalism, Regulation

Occupational Regulations and the Gender Wage Gap

May 23, 2014 by Cathy R.

You can also listen to this post! Or, read it. Two researchers at Utah State University have discovered a factor which may be silently impacting the much-discussed, but poorly understood, gender wage gap. Lindsey McBride and Grant Patty examined the gender bias of occupational licensing requirements. What they found is that —  at least at … [Read more…]

Posted in: Feminism Tagged: Crony Capitalism, feminism, Gender Wage Gap, Licensure Laws

Justin Amash’s Michigan Primary Battle Is One for the Soul of the GOP

May 21, 2014 by Cathy R.

Think of every area where the GOP has strayed from its conservative roots. The bailouts. TARP. Out-of-control government spying. Job-killing corporate cronyism. There is one man in Congress consistently saying “no” to making government bigger and less accountable. His name is Justin Amash, and the establishment has taken notice. Big business wants to ensure voters … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electoral Politics Tagged: Crony Capitalism, Electoral Politics, Justin Amash

The Delicious Irony of “Dark Money”

December 24, 2013 by Cathy R.

It turns out that the liberal think tank Center for American Progress gets its funding from evil corporations just like everyone else. Among the top donors are multi-national corporations and industries such as Google, Northrop Grumman, and NBCUniversal. Not a day goes by without some big-government lefty railing about “dark money.” Just last week, Sen. … [Read more…]

Posted in: corporatism Tagged: Center for American Progress, Crony Capitalism, Dark Money, Elizabeth Warren

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