Blog Articles · Mar 31, 2014 · Budget and Spending, Cronyism

Export-Import Bank: A Microcosm of Washington's Cronyism

The United States Export-Import Bank is essentially a microcosm of some of Washington's biggest problems, from the corruption it encourages, to putting taxpayers at...

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Blog Articles · Mar 11, 2014 · Budget and Spending, Cronyism

Export-Import Bank Head: Boeing Can Arrange Own Financing

Fred Hochberg, the very vocal leader of a little known credit export agency called the U.S. Export-Import Bank, made a stunning admission in an...

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Blog Articles · Mar 5, 2014 · Budget and Spending, Defense and National Security, Regulation

Up Next: Terrorism Risk Insurance

In the coming weeks, Congress will begin debating whether to take a temporary program one step closer to immortality. In 2002, in the aftermath...

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Blog Articles · Feb 23, 2014 · Budget and Spending, Defense and National Security

Sanders' Veteran Bill Asphyxiates the VA System

Most Americans would agree that those who have sacrificed in service of this nation deserve the care and gratitude of their government. The importance...

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Blog Articles · Feb 12, 2014 · Budget and Spending

Why More Lawmakers Should Have Fought the Debt Ceiling Suspension

My Foundry piece this week explains the clean debt ceiling suspension is just the beginning of a sustained effort to abdicate fiscal responsibility. Some...

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Blog Articles · Jan 15, 2014 · Agriculture , Budget and Spending

PILT and the Farm Bill: Why Americans No Longer Trust Their Elected Officials

Christmas may have been last month, but the House of Representatives just jammed through a $1.111 trillion appropriations bill and it looks as if...

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