Showing posts with label Crony Capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crony Capitalism. Show all posts
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Tulane University's Walter Isaacson calls out Trump's state capitalism for Nvidia, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices

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  Trump’s Nvidia and Intel meddling is a ‘scattershot method of crony capitalism’: Walter Isaacson ... “That state capitalism often evolves ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Al Hunt and James Carville laughably pretend that Obama didn't dominate Washington by flooding the zone with shit like Trump is doing

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Hey Obama! Guess where I'm calling from! Carville: Trump Has Flooded The Zone With Sh*t And We Don't Have A Response    Al Hunt:  An...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

The whole point of stories like this is to make you think "crony capitalism" isn't a description of what's been going on and continues to go on right now

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   Ken Griffin just hates tariffs, which funded the (necessarily very small) federal government until the 20th century. Meanwhile he's a...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Joe Biden's cancer moonshot is going to make his cronies rich, but it isn't going to end cancer

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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

The American Spectator singles out Michigan for its $16 billion in corporate welfare, but the cronyism trend is up 39% just in the top 10 states since 2015

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The story is here , and is more than correct to state: Unfortunately, crony capitalism is something both parties are willing to get ...
Monday, December 11, 2017

You say "crony capitalism" and I say "crony capitalism", crony, capitalism, crony, capitalism, let's call the whole thing off

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Friday, July 28, 2017

State capitalist cronyism in Wisconsin smells to high heaven: The state will pay $3 billion for Foxconn jobs

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The cost of reelection for Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Donald Trump. From the story here : What will the State of Wisconsin be pay...
Friday, December 2, 2016

America: Where Mark Levin is on the radio discussing Sarah Palin's misgivings about Trump's crony capitalism . . .

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. . . and the feed cuts off to a basketball game. Even fascism has to pay the bills.
Friday, August 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton has the billionaire vote all sewed up, full steam ahead for the crony capitalist status quo

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Friday, December 4, 2015

"Racist" isn't working against Trump, so now they'll try "fascist"

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Ross Douthat, here , where else?, in The New York Times, attempting to lay the groundwork from the right: 'Whether or not we want ...
Monday, October 26, 2015

The unending fascination of Sarah Palin for little Democrat minds

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Dunderhead Democrat Party hack William Daley is stuck on stupid. Here  he is in full flutter in WaPo, like a moth drawn to a lightbulb...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Big mistake: Donald Trump says he's 100% in favor of ethanol

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The Donald, quoted here  on September 22nd: 'Trump said that he supports the RFS at Iowa’s Faith and Freedom Forum, “I am totally ...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Crony capitalism in nutty Iowa: Nearly 40% of Iowa's corn ends up as ethanol, not feed, driving up food and fuel costs

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Since 2010-2011, Iowa has produced an average of 12.7 billion bushels of corn, with an average of 5 billion bushels going to ethanol produ...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Obamacare's been fabulous . . . for investors in healthcare company stocks

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Story here : "Since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act took effect two years ago in the rockiest of rollouts, America...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Something down is up in Russia

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Normally traffic from Russia represents over 10% of my blog audience, going back years, but in the last week that has dropped off the clif...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

We don't have free trade WITHIN the United States: Companies in just 13 states get over 90% of $110 billion in government subsidies since the 1970s

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We're talking over $100 billion of taxpayer money favoring companies, in descending order, in New York way ahead in first, then Wash...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

TARP ends, but conservatives still don't realize it was just a sideshow

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Existing crisis loans 1st of the month in billion$ That TARP was just a sideshow was not known at the time in 2008, but it should be k...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

22 States and DC raise minimum wage this year: Expect teen employment to remain in depression or decline further

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Teen employment levels today at 4.6 million are still 2.9 million below their 2006 peak of almost 7.5 million. This is not just an a...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Obama thinks he has achievements, which must mean he is suffering a psychosis

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From the long story in The New Yorker, here , by image-accommodating biographer David Remnick: As Obama ticked off a list of first-term achi...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Crony Capitalism Is A Feature, Not A Bug, Of Contemporary Liberalism

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Jeffrey Snider, here : Employment grows not on the pace of redistribution-derived consumer spending in the lower classes, but as new firms i...