It was Balkan-style crony capitalism, creating far too cosy a relationship between politics and big business.
They will spend millions of dollars to try to perpetuate their brand of crony capitalism.
They were against crony capitalism when it came to Iraq, Halliburton and no-bid contracts.
But the problem of crony capitalism is trivial compared with the collusion engendered by government.
End the crony capitalism and the lobbying efforts become a pointless waste of money.
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This example of crony capitalism is an even bigger failure for the taxpayer than planned.
But this is not a market failure so much as it is the result of crony capitalism.
Green crony capitalism is proving to be one of the more politically toxic stories of our time.
They now fund a dependency society at home and abroad and crony capitalism in the corporate sector.
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In the call for Grand Compromises and the like, we should start with the dismantling of crony capitalism.
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Political cronyism and crony capitalism channel privileges to the favored few the bureaucratic elite and their special interest constituents.
Government intervention misdirects resources from wealth generating endeavors into crony capitalism, consumption and graft under the pretense of stimuli.
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The type of crony capitalism that led taxpayers to waste over half-a-billion dollars on Solyndra needs to be eliminated.
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Earmarks are simply the tip of the much bigger iceberg of crony capitalism wreaking havoc on our country.
The darkest moments of war, occupation, mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and autocratic leadership and crony capitalism were all there.
In Russia, the economic consequences of crony capitalism can be masked by high energy prices for a short while.
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The problem is that manipulating interest rates and allocating credit to favored parties fosters crony capitalism, not market liberalism.
And to say the least, this societal angst over crony capitalism, consumerism, and commercialism appears to be festering and fermenting.
Most people agree that costly useless wars need to stop, and that crony capitalism and government corruption needs to stop.
We support capitalism based on hard work and wealth creation, not crony capitalism based on whom you know in Washington, D.
Policies that encourage competition, if done correctly, can be a tool to help reduce crony capitalism, too-big-to-fail banks, and income inequality.
The economy bears more than a little resemblance to the crony capitalism that sprouted from the wreck of the Soviet Union.
The jury is still out on Malaysia where crony capitalism has weakened its financial institutions but not brought about political instability.
He insisted that David Cameron was "coming on to my ground" on issues like taking on vested interests and "crony capitalism".
"It's called crony capitalism, " says Moeletsi Mbeki, 62, brother of South Africa's president and an outspoken critic of the race-preference laws.
The cost and uncertainties introduced by dysfunctional crony capitalism, pay-to-play politicians, and misguided environmental activists would be deadly to any entrepreneur.
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Forecasting short-term rates near zero for the foreseeable future sends the wrong signal namely, that financial repression and crony capitalism will continue.
Black Friday is not merely a celebration of crony capitalism and greed.
The elite and an increasing number of ordinary Russians seem to be getting fed up with Mr Putin and his crony capitalism.
Russian crony capitalism combines political power with blackmail, jail, mayhem, and murder.
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