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.
In Russia, the economic consequences of crony capitalism can be masked by high energy prices for a short while.
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And to say the least, this societal angst over crony capitalism, consumerism, and commercialism appears to be festering and fermenting.
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 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".
Black Friday is not merely a celebration of crony capitalism and greed.
This unfortunately has more in common with the crony capitalism and rent protection that Zingales rightly dislikes than it does with premarket capitalism.
Instead, it marks the massive endorsement of an expanding crony capitalism that ultimately could reshape the already troubled American economic system beyond recognition.
Part of that phenomenon involves crony capitalism, whereby the people on top take care of each other at shareholder expense (search on "golden parachutes").
The new right will flatly reject interference with the free market in the form of crony capitalism, bailouts and the creation of artificial marketplaces.
Worse still, crony capitalism turns people off from civic involvement altogether.
Crony capitalism and corporate welfare aren't just expenses we cannot afford.
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Second, cuddly capitalism has a habit of turning into crony capitalism.
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Conversely, it is the ambitious opportunities for crony capitalism that fade into obscurity because a closed-loop bitcoin economy not requiring meatspace exchanges would emerge and accelerate.
He attacks crony capitalism by removing deductions for the more well to do, corporations and lobbyists and does so in a gradual, thoughtful but significant way.
Economist Luigi Zingales is worried that the United States is becoming a land of crony capitalism and nepotism, and will suffer the fate of his homeland of Italy.
The fact that over 100 wireless carriers are against the ruling and two are in favor is further evidence that this is a clear case of crony capitalism.
And Americans lecture Asians about the evils of crony capitalism.
As the best-known patriarch among the ruling families that dominate the Mexican economy, he draws the most fire for the distinctly Mexican form of crony capitalism that pervades the national economy.
Ukrainian capitalism, so far, has been mere crony capitalism.
Respecting private property, promoting sound money, combating corruption, weeding out crony capitalism, protectionism, and other causes of unjust inequalities, which especially affect the poor, is a path to a truly liberated and more just society.
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The way to shake up Poland's crony capitalism is not by selectively hunting down the cronies, but by making it such an open, liberal and competitive society that the old connections no longer count for much.
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Curtail the crony capitalism which riddles Washington.
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They argue that we should not be extending credit at a time when we are broke, we should not be picking winners and losers, and that these sorts of transactions amount to crony capitalism and favor big businesses.
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But there was also a successful progressive prescription for reducing income gaps and boosting mobility by attacking crony capitalism, investing in the young (especially by broadening access to education) and creating a safety net for the poorest (particularly through unemployment insurance and pension schemes).
Duke has become dependent on this kind of crony-capitalism.
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