Recent Posts Tagged With 'rent-seeking'

• Could Obama's energy plan destroy the environment?

  Posted on Monday November 17th, 2008 at 06:30 in environment, energy, food, obama, development, rent-seeking

  Wired has a headline story today about about a biofuel start-up, and while the article is generally pretty disappointing (nothing about whether or not this company is receiving – or looking for – subsidies?), it's got an absolutely horrifying ca...

• T. Boone Pickens, pickin' your pocket

  Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 10:35 in environment, energy, transportation, rent-seeking

  T. Boone Pickens is up to his rent-seeking mischief again. He's managed to capitalize on the green trend by advocating subsidies for his "green" projects. This includes a vast wind farm in Texas, which he's gone ahead with and now is lobbying to ge...

• Impairing creative destruction

  Posted on Wednesday September 24th, 2008 at 21:43 in transportation, protectionism, rent-seeking

  Last week we heard that Detroit was getting a bailout to the tune of $25 billion, and today we heard that it's a done deal that'll be signed as early as this weekend. US News & World Report gives the details:Adjusted for inflation, the Chrystler...