30 years ago in reason.

• Position: Citings - Brief article

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"The history of the [Federal Trade Commission's] intervenor funding program--which has so far handed out nearly $2 million--is one of helping its friends and ignoring its adversaries. The result has been an almost total anti-business, pro-regulation bias in the allocation of what are, after all, taxpayers' funds."

--Morgan Norval, "Kept Critics"

"Aid dispensed bythe International Monetary Fund and the World Bank serves primarily to prevent Third World governments from defaulting on their loans from Citibank, Chase Manhattan, and Manufacturers Hanover Bank. Direct U.S. aid--even its supporters admit--is spent largely on contracts with U.S. multinationals to construct huge government-owned...