Tag: Spain
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Are you ready for some futbol? History and the World Cup
During the recently concluded qualifying rounds for next summer’s 2014 World Cup, I was reminded of Paraguay’s run at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. So much hope for a more equitable world seemed to mis/dis-placed onto the upsets Ghana and Paraguay scored to advance to the quarterfinals of that event. The tournament ultimately…
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Corporate Welfare.2: Subsidizing Sallie Mae
Continuing this series on the publicly funded nature of so called private enterprise in this country…. Sometimes subsidies know how to disguise themselves. Blackwater’s defense contracts bring them direct cash payments for no-bid contracts. But student lenders like Sallie Mae get their government cheese in the form of regulations on interest rates. In a double…