Crony Capitalism

The oil and biofuel industries worry that EPA could get it wrong in issuing new renewable fuel standards. (AP)

Beltway Confidential

After a record year in Iowa, big ethanol asks for another handout

Philip Wegmann · December 29, 2017 6:37 pm

The home mortgage interest deduction makes tax fairness impossible and should be repealed. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Beltway Confidential

The mortgage interest deduction is cronyism at its worst

Justin Haskins · November 30, 2017 9:29 pm

The Double-Headed CFPB

TWS Podcast · November 27, 2017 9:40 pm

Outgoing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray struck a secret deal with hedge fund manager Donald Uderitz regarding the collection of student loan debt, just the latest example of the sort of work Cordray has become known for at the CFPB. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Beltway Confidential

Richard Cordray, now on his way out the CFPB door, struck a shady deal on student loan debt

Shannon Watkins · November 21, 2017 5:01 am

The ITC and President Trump can still do the right thing and stand with U.S. taxpayers and against crony capitalists. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Whirlpool enlists government to help avoid competing and innovating

Washington Examiner · November 17, 2017 5:01 am

Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore dug in his heels Thursday amid multiple sexual misconduct allegations and demands from national GOP leaders that he stand aside. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Roy Moore digs in, boosted by top Alabama Republicans

David M. Drucker · November 17, 2017 5:01 am

Billionaire and casino owner Sheldon Adelson is not only pushing to curb Internet gambling state by state, but he's also supporting federal legislation that would prohibit most online forms of gambling nationwide. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Sheldon Adelson and his astroturf lobbyists don’t want to let you gamble online

Matthew Boyer · November 6, 2017 11:27 pm

SpaceX has been greasing the wheels of Congress to eliminate its competitors for years. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is at war with the free market

Samuel Postell · October 30, 2017 6:23 pm

Any new climate rules should be as neutral as possible. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

EPA, do us all a favor and don’t pick favorites

Washington Examiner · October 10, 2017 4:01 am

Trump doesn't understand free enterprise well enough, or the swamp well enough to know cronyism when it comes knocking. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump’s corporate welfare problem

Timothy P. Carney · October 3, 2017 5:29 pm

Who else loses? Air travelers, whose tickets will now cost more than they otherwise would have. Not to mention every business that those passengers would have spent their extra disposable income on, plus every firm that would have supplied the needs of the additional cabin crew who now won't exist.

The latest US move on planes is a train-wreck

Dan Hannan · October 2, 2017 4:01 am

Tom Price sold his shares in an Australian biotech company for $320,000 in February, earning $225,000 on a $94,000 investment. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Tom Price could dip into his shady stock earnings to pick up that full travel tab

Emily Jashinsky · September 29, 2017 5:34 pm