Authors: David Cay Johnston
“medical loss ratio”
Medicare
fraud
Part D, legislative process creating
Medicare Training & Consulting
Mellon,
Andrew
Merrill Lynch
Metro New York
Mexico, U.S. trade
with
Micrel Corporation
Microsoft
MidAmerican Energy Company
middle class
distribution
of income in the U.S. and
government
investment in
Milken, Michael
Miller, Douglas
Modell, Art
Montgomery, Betty
Montreal Expos
moral hazard
morality
rules based on
Morgan Stanley
Morgenson, Gretchen
Morris, Johnny
mortgage debt
mortgage interest deduction
mortgage loans
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Mullaly, John
Mullaly Park
mutual funds
fees charged investors
Nader, Ralph
Nardelli, Bob
National Association of Insurance
Commissioners
national security
foreign acquisition of American companies and
National Transportation Safety Board
Native
Americans
Abramoff's dealings
with
Navy, U.S.
negative
Commerce Clause
Nelnet
net worth,
median
New Deal
New Jersey
Nets
New Jersey Public Advocate
New York
City
baseball stadiums
Independent Budget Office
parks
New York Mets
New York
Observer, The
New York State, health care fraud in
New York Times, The
New York Yankees
Ney, Bob
Nickles, Don
Nixon, Richard M.
health care system and
Noe, Larry
nonprofits
HMOs as
sale of assets of
Norfolk Southern
Norquist, Grover
Northrop
Northwest Airlines
offshoring
oil
industry
cartels and oil
prices
tax credits
for
Old Republic International Corporation
oligopoly
Olson, Pamela
Olson, Theodore B.
Oppidan Investment
Company
Oregonian
Oregon Public Utility Commission
Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
original intent theory
Ostrowski, James
PacificCorp.
Pacific Gas and Electric
Company
Paine, Thomas
Palank,
Angelica
Palank, Paul
Parker,
Doug
park systems
in Los Angeles
New York City
underfunding of
partnership
rules
Pataki, George
Paul, Ron
Peeno, Dr. Linda
Pell grants
Penn Central
Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation
(PBGC)
pension funds
changes in pension-funding rules
executive pensions
government-guarantees
invested in hedge funds
Perry,
Rick
Petit Trianon
pharmaceutical
companies
Piketty, Thomas
pilots, pensions
of airline
PILOTs (payments in lieu of taxes)
Plonsey, Jim
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poet, Jeff
Polanyi, Karl
police, burglar alarm systems and
political finance
reform
Portland, Oregon
Portland General
Electric
poverty
costs of
Powell, Jody
power to address our problems
Preston
Gates
Price, Herb
prices
collusion and
electricity,
see
electricity
prices
in a free
market
subsidies and increases
in
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Princeton-Newport Partners
principles to guide economic
policy
private letter rulings, IRS
“Problem of
Social Cost, The,”
Proposition 13, California's
Public Citizen
punitive damages awards
“Purloined Letter, The,”
Putka, Gary
Quellos (financial boutique)
qui tam
lawsuit
railroad travel, safety of
Palank case
Rangel, Charles
Reagan, Ronald, and Reagan
administration
health care system
and
income tax rates
under
privatization of government
functions
Recycled Paper Greetings
Reed, Ralph
referral fees
regulation (rules)
favoring
the rich, powerful, and politically connected
hiding behind the
moral or practical basis of
penalties for misconduct
power to control and shape
public safety and
self-enforcing
of trade
see
also
deregulation;
specific industries
Rehnquist, Chief Justice William
religious
earmarks
Renaissance Technologies Corporation
retail subsidies
Reuters
reverse competition
Reynolds, Catherine B.
Reynolds Foundation
Rhone-Poulenc
Rohrer
Road to Serfdom, The
(Hayek)
Robbins, William G.
Roberts, Chief
Justice John Glover, Jr.
Rohrbacher, Dana
Rojas, Warren
Ross, Jack
Rove, Karl
Russian government, hedge-fund meltdown of
1998 and
Sacramento Municipal Utility
District
Saez, Emmanuel
safety, regulation of
public
Sallie Mae
Sanders,
Bernie
San Hua New Material High-Tech Inc.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Saud, House of
Schaeffer, Leonard
Scholes, Jan
Scholes, Myron S.
Schori, Jan
Schultz, Howard
Schultz, James T.
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Scott, Richard I.
Scott, Robert E.
Scully, Thomas A.
Searcy, Christian D.
Seattle Mariners
Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Sonics
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Sempra
Energy
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
separation of powers
service jobs
Sextant Group
Shapiro, Irving
Shark, Myer
Shearman & Sterling
Shea Stadium
Showalter, Marilyn
Shrum, Bob
Signatures restaurant
Silicon Valley Power
Simons, James
SLM Corporation
Smith, Adam
on allocation
of scare goods
“invisible
hand”
on prices in a free
market
on
subsidies
on unchecked
self-interest
Smith, Brad
Smith, Nick
Smith, Terral
Smith, Tom
Smith, William French
“smoothing,”
Snead, Thomas G.
Snohomish County Public Utility District
Snow, John
W.
Social Security
Sodd,
Glenn
solutions, proposed
Souter, Justice
David
Sowell, Thomas
Sparrow,
Malcolm
Spaziani, Carol
sports leagues and
teams
ballparks,
see
ballparks
exemption from laws of competition
financial disclosure
source of profits
threatening to move
sports stadiums,
see
ballparks
Stark, Fortney “Pete,”
Stat Resources
Stecklow, Steve
Steenland, Douglas
Steinbrenner, George
parkland seized for new stadium
Steuerle, Gene
Stewart Information Services
stock options
Black-Scholes method of valuing
illegal practices
strike price
stranded costs
StudentLoanJustice.org
student loans
subprime mortgage loans
subsidies
costs versus benefits of
as drag on national economy
price increases and
Adam Smith on
see also
specific
recipients of subsidies
Supreme
Court, U.S.
corporate welfare
and
CSX case
and
Major League Baseball
and
usury laws
and
Talukdar,
Sarosh
Target
Tate, Sheila
Tauzin, Billy
Taxation: The
People's Business
(Mellon)
taxes
after-tax income of bottom half of
Americans
alternative minimum
tax
George W. Bush's income tax
returns