It was Balkan-style crony capitalism, creating far too cosy a relationship between politics and big business.
He and a small group of crony capitalists control business in this country of 600, 000.
They will spend millions of dollars to try to perpetuate their brand of crony capitalism.
Contrary to popular belief, crony capitalists love regulations especially when they get to write them.
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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.
The company was formerly owned by Bob Hasan, a notorious Suharto crony later jailed for corruption.
They cluster into tight-knit groups of cronies, who battle other crony bands for dwindling spoils.
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One man in particular, though, fits the description of a crony perfectly: Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary.
End the crony capitalism and the lobbying efforts become a pointless waste of money.
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Such is the sad life of the coddled few in a crony capitalist economic system.
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Rosneft is a brazen example of Mr Putin's crony state capitalism (see article).
This example of crony capitalism is an even bigger failure for the taxpayer than planned.
Without the rigid discipline of profit and loss, crony capitalist sleaze like Solyndra becomes certain.
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Taxing the rich only benefits a tiny class of government bureaucrats and crony capitalists.
Huge slugs of household savings were channeled by Asian, and foreign, bankers into crony property companies.
MDC, and Mr Mugabe is quick to crush any crony who gets above himself.
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.
Abramovich testimony describes business dealings common to crony capitalist countries like the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Mexico, and Korea.
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This is true as much for the practitioners of small-scale, survivalist corruption as for big crony capitalists.
Danding Cojuangco is not my crony and I cannot see how he could possibly become my crony.
They now fund a dependency society at home and abroad and crony capitalism in the corporate sector.
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Other crony capitalists could also benefit form the new regulatory assault: the rise essentially of national zoning.
But now that Grimoaldo has forced himself on Rodelinda, Eduige has an unwanted admirer: Grimoaldo's violent crony, Garibaldo.
These special interest groups lobby to make it harder for shareholders to unseat crony boards and under-performing CEOs.
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In December, Suharto sacked trade minister and Habibie crony Satrio Budiardjo Judono ahead of the ICMI's annual congress.
In the call for Grand Compromises and the like, we should start with the dismantling of crony capitalism.
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"Isolate the poor -- push them out of the city, reward your crony-businessmen friends, " Shehayeb described the plan.
Political cronyism and crony capitalism channel privileges to the favored few the bureaucratic elite and their special interest constituents.
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