Tag: David Cay Johnston

• Corporate Welfare.3: Welfare Wings

  Today the Real News Network, who I encourage you to support during their current drive to win a matching gift, is reporting that “the Michigan strategic fund has decided to issue $450 million in bonds for a new stadium for the Detroit Red Wings, 44% of which will be financed publicly,” while the city is…

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  July 25, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Corporate Welfare, Debt, Economics, History, Politics, Series of posts, Sports

  Battle For Brooklyn, Brooklyn Nets, Capitalism, Dave Zirin, David Cay Johnston, Economics, Food Justice, Free Lunch, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, Neoliberalism, New England Patriots, New York Yankees, Politics, profit margins, Real News Network, Rudy Giuliani, Sports, The Fall, The Nation

• Corporate Welfare.1: Blackwater’s Warfare Welfare

  (This is the first in a new series of posts about how corporations that claim to generate profit in the private sector are heavily subsidized by taxpayers in ways that I could only wish fields like education and healthcare were.  For an overview on that, see “Free Lunch:  How the Richest Americans Enrich Themselves at…

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  June 28, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Economics, History, Politics, Series of posts

  Aaron Glantz, american empire, Bank of America, Blackwater, Book Reviews, Capitalism, David Cay Johnston, Dirty Wars, Economics, Free Lunch, Goldman Sachs, History, Imperialism, Jeremy Scahill, JP Morgan, Left media, Matt Taibbi, Neoliberalism, profit margins, The War Comes Home, Too Big To Fail, veterans