Pat Garofalo
Pat Garofalo is the author of The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs, from which this piece is adapted, and the managing editor of TalkPoverty.org.
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If You Build It, They Might Not Come: The Risky Economics of Sports Stadiums
The trials of the Phoenix Coyotes, the least popular hockey team in the NHL, offer a lesson in public debt and defeat
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The Real Scandal in Private Equity? It's the Taxes
Romney gets a huge discount on his income taxes, even though he's a mega-millionaire, because of a strange law that gives special privileges to private equity managers