Crony Capitalism

Sheila Bair as Vice President. Governor Romney, Are You Listening?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Fdic, Cnbc, JPMorgan Chase, President Obama, Wall Street, Maria Bartiromo, Bain Capital, Governor Romney, Crony Capitalism, Congress, Business, Financial Crisis, Heila Bair, Dodd-Frank Bill, Sheila Bair, Politics News
Raymond J. Learsy

Romney is identified hand and fist with Wall Street's interests. Yet it is still early in the campaign. It would be a coup were his campaign to look to that singular personage in government who fought tooth and nail for the interests of everyday America.

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The Death of Economic Liberty and the Birth of Crony Capitalism

Trevor Burrus | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Dairy Farm, U.S. Court of Appeals, Dairy, Washington DC, Hettinga v. United States, Big Dairy, Economics, Crony Capitalism, Economic Liberty, Politics News
Trevor Burrus

The history of crony capitalism didn't begin when big businesses and billionaires began spending fortunes on lobbying and campaign contributions. It began when the New Deal-era Supreme Court stopped protecting fundamental economic liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.

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Draft Hillary for 2016 Bid

Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Crony Capitalism, Reform, Bruce Springsteen, Working Class, 2016 Election, 2012 Election, Heartland America, Protest, Robert Kennedy, Arab Spring, Populist Century, Israeli Protests, Populist Movement, Equal Pay, Female Century, Protest Music, Barack Obama, Syrian Freedom Fighters, Inequality, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

Re-elect Barack Obama in 2012 and draft Hillary Clinton for 2016 to achieve an era of reform and realignment that will powerfully change history.

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Adam Smith Would Be Appalled

Allan Brawley | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Money in Politics, Crony Capitalism, Adam Smith, Democracy Adam Smith, Adam Smith Market, Adam Smith Business, Democracy Wealth Adam Smith, Laissez Faire Adam Smith, Wall Street Politics, Politics News
Allan Brawley

Adam Smith would be appalled by the behavior of those who justify their selfish actions by citing his name and the economic rules that he supposedly espoused.

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Two-Party Economic Betrayal of the Working Class: The Need for a Grassroots Progressive Campaign

Michele Swenson | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Social Security, Crony Capitalism, State of the Union 2012, Occupy Wall Street, Medicare, Obama Social Security, Obama Medicare, State of the Union, Denver News
Michele Swenson

Election year choices are increasingly disconnected from most people's lives, controlled by the Democratic-Republican duopoly in thrall to corporate megabucks that buy off government, and covered by corporate media like a horse race.

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Let's Stand With Working People Against the Crony Capitalists and Their Political Lackeys

Allan Brawley | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Crony Capitalism, Wisconsin Recall Elections, Unions, Money in Politics, Occupy Wall Street Movement, Labor Laws, Occupy Wall Street, Labor Movement, Workers Rights, Politics News
Allan Brawley

Early union struggles need to be remembered and appropriately re-enacted if we are to take the country back from the corporate interests that again control it, their political and judicial allies, and the complicit mainstream media.

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On Behalf of the 1%, the Best Bargain Since Manhattan

J.H. Snider | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Corporate Welfare, Fcc, Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Crony Capitalism, Payroll Tax Cut, Spectrum Auctions, Media Ethics, Ntia, Broadcast TV, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Federal Communications Commission, Business News
J.H. Snider

Unmentioned is that the payroll-tax cut bill, by bipartisan agreement, sets in motion a much larger transfer of public assets to the top 1%.

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Jason Cherkis

Let The Mud Fly: Read Texas Dems' 500-Page Rick Perry Opposition Book

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: HPV Vaccine, Opposition Research, Gop 2012, Governorship, Gov. Rick Perry, Mitt Romney 2008, Bill White, Buzzfeed, Rick Perry, 2012, Texas, Government, Video, Jeff Rotkoff, Mitt Romney 2012, Land Deals, Link Strategies, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Crony Capitalism, South Carolina 2012, Gop 2012 Presidential Candidates, Republican Primary 2012, Texans for America's Future, Vulture Capitalism, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Running for the 2008 GOP nomination, John McCain's campaign team pulled together 200 pages of dirt on his 2008 rival Mitt Romney, posted...

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Is Crony Capitalism Wrong?

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Freddie Mac, President's Working Group on the Capital Markets, Henry Paulson, Fannie Mae, Crony Capitalism, Richard Teitelbaum, Eric Mindich, Congressman Michael Quigley, Goldman Sachs, Hedge Funds, Business News
Janet Tavakoli

What do we stand for and how much of this can we stand? What are we willing to tolerate or not tolerate from our public servants? Where did we go so wrong that congressional staffers imply that crony capitalism is business as usual?

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'Run Sarah Run!'

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Sarah Palin Ad, Video, 2012 Election, Gop 2012, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin 2012, Elections 2012, Political Ads, Crony Capitalism, Alaska Gov Sarah Palin, conservatives4palin, Politics News

A new political ad is urging former part-time Alaska governor Sarah Palin to reconsider her decision not to run in the 2012 election. The ad from the ...

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Fairness and the Occupy Movement Revisited

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Glass-Steagall Act, Crony Capitalism, Arthur Brooks, Ayn Rand, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News
Jeffrey Sachs

Across the ideological spectrum, we all agree on the need to end crony capitalism. But let us also work together not to cripple government but to make it work for all Americans.

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The Climate Post: 'Crony Capitalism' Alleged Behind Tar Sands Pipeline Review

Mason Inman | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Keystone XL Pipeline, Keystone Pipeline Approval, Environmental Policy, Keystone Pipeline State Department, State Department, Crony Capitalism, Green News
Mason Inman

Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request imply the State Department -- charged with evaluating the pipeline -- may have worked closely with TransCanada to help the plan win approval.

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Corporate Capitalism is Still Incredibly Broken

Damien Hoffman | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Executive Compensation, Corporate Executive Pay, Corporation No Taxes, Corporate America, Crony Capitalism, Business News
Damien Hoffman

It's time we address it: the shareholder, employee, and entrepreneur class must eliminate the system of corporate cronyism acting as a malignant cancer in our economy.

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Bachmann Accuses Republican Rival Of 'Crony Capitalism'

AP | By WILL WEISSERT | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Lexicon, Texas Enterprise Fund, Michele Bachmann 2012, Elections 2012, Kay Bailey Hutchison Rick Perry, Bill White, Bachmann, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Rick Perry Texas Enterprise Fund, Rick Perry, Hutchison Perry, Texas, Perry 2012, Bill White Rick Perry, Bachmann 2012, Video, Perry, Michele Bachmann, Perry Hutchison, Perry Texas Enterprise Fund, Texas Jobs, Texas Economy, Rick Perry 2012, Perry Bachmann, White Perry, Crony Capitalism, Bachmann Perry, Lexicon Genetics, Politics News

AUSTIN, Texas -- Rick Perry brags that Texas has created more than 1 million jobs during his 10 years as governor, trumpeting the state's hands-off re...

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Jason Cherkis

Rick Perry Faced Federal Scrutiny For Insider Trading, Criticism For Land Deals

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Stocks, Elections 2012, Haskell County, Bill White, Michael Dell, F.B.I., Rick-Perry, Rick Perry, Mike Toomey, Video, Wall Street, Land Deals, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Rick Perry 2012, James Leininger, Horseshoe Bay, Gop, Crony Capitalism, College Station, Tim Timmerman, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Since announcing his run for the presidency, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) has had to fend off allegations of crony capitalism. Such cri...

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Rick Perry, the Man from Huawei

Ian Fletcher | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Corporate Espionage, Republican 2012 Presidential Candidates, Huawei, Huawei Technologies, China Espionage, Republican 2012 Primary, Rick Perry, Crony Capitalism, Espionage, China, Republicans, Politics News
Ian Fletcher

Rick Perry cannot be held responsible for everything the Chinese firm Huawei does, or might do, all over the world. But equally, his intimate involvement with them doesn't exactly show good judgment for someone who aspires to be commander in chief of America's national security.

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Jason Cherkis

Perry Administration's HPV Emails Raise Questions Of 'Under The Table' Input, Merck Involvement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Hpv, Merck, Mike Morrissey, Hpv Vaccination, Lobbyists, Elections 2012, Laura Keel, Reggie Bashur, GOP Presidential Race, Rick Perry, Rick Perry Executive Order, Greg Davidson, Mike Toomey, Rick Perry Hpv, Video, 'Crony Capitalism', Michele Bachmann, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Emails, Politics News

WASHINGTON--The day before Texas Governor Rick Perry issued his now-controversial executive order mandating the administration of the HPV vaccine, an ...

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What Gardasil Says About Perry's Concern for Our Daughters' Welfare

Amy Siskind | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Merck, GOP Debate, Sarah Palin, Gardasil, Crony Capitalism, Teenage Girls, Michelle Malkin, Rick Perry, Politics News
Amy Siskind

While conservatives and progressives will clearly disagree on the government's role in mandating vaccines, here's what we can agree on: Rick Perry did not have the best interest of our daughters' in mind at the time of his executive order.

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Contrary to Gladwell, NBA Owners Do Get to Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Philip Anschutz, Tom Yawkey, Nba Lockout, Mark Cuban, David Stern, Crony Capitalism, Malcolm Gladwell, Staples Center, Sports News
Jonathan Weiler

Owners in all of the major sports have shown an unwavering desire to make as much money as possible precisely by taking advantage of the fact that sports are not ordinary businesses.

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Inflation: Where Cronyism Meets Poverty

Robin Koerner | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve, Welfare, Crony Capitalism, Banks, Poverty, Inflation, Ron Paul, Politics News
Robin Koerner

Inflation is built into a monetary system that is designed, so it seems, to help political and financial classes exercise power over ordinary citizens, and to make us pay for the privilege.

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The F Word: Corruption and Inequality Begin at Home

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Corruption, West Virginia, Massey Energy, Class War, Judges, Massey, Economy, Crony Capitalism, Grit Tv, Coal, Injustice, Judicial, Laura Flanders, Don Blankenship, Glenn Greenwald, Grittv, Revolution, Inequality, Politics News
Laura Flanders

The U.S. media seems to have found a new language for the economy. There's been talk of "solidarity" and even "class war." The only problem? They're talking about Egypt.

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Crony Capitalism: Wall Street's Favorite Politicians

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Lobbying, Budget, Crony Capitalism, Campaign Finance, Financial Reform, Jobs, Recession, Bush Economy, Deficit, Unemployment, Wall Street Reform, Bank Lobby, Wall Street, Bailout, Deregulation, Republicans, Bank Bailout, Wall Street Bailout, Republican Party, Campaign Finance Reform, Business News
Zach Carter

All 21 senators who voted with Wall Street on the bailout and financial reform are Republicans, and Republicans raked in over 90 percent of the total campaign contributions.

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Lessons in Crony Capitalism

Malou Innocent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Karzai, Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghan War, Crony Capitalism, Capitalism, Afghanistan War, World News
Malou Innocent

This U.S.-led nation-building charade in Afghanistan sounds eerily reminiscent of the state-controlled corruption surrounding Afghanistan's mineral mining laws.

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Can the Internet Fix Politics?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Oil Disaster, Crony Capitalism, Cycle of Decay, Audit the Fed, Phrma, Personal Democracy Forum, Technology News
Jane Hamsher

None of us can win the battle against a heavily out-gunned corporate world alone. Online activists must change the terms of political debates. Until we do, we're simply putting new tools in the service of the old order. And we will continue to lose.

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The Trojan Horse In The Financial Reform Bill

Edward Harrison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banking, Regulatory Capitalism, Politics, Crony Capitalism, Politics News
Edward Harrison

Two weeks ago as the Financial Reform Bill was wending its way through Congress, Paul Kanjorski emerged as the champion of breaking up too-big-to-fail...

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