Subsidies

Thanks to the U.S. sugar program, sugar beet and sugar cane farmers have had the advantage of minimum prices, cheap loans, and tariffs to keep out competitors — all at taxpayer expense. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Sugar subsidies are anything but sweet

February 6, 2018 9:24 pm

This 2010 picture shows the large square building that houses the nuclear reactor at the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey Township, N.J. The facility was scheduled to close on December 2019, but now the plant will shut down ahead of schedule in October. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Energy and Environment

Nuclear plant to close ahead of schedule

John Siciliano -

February 2, 2018 7:43 pm

General Electric is cooperating with a Justice Department probe of a discontinued mortgage business.

Columnists

The decline and fall of General Electric, the poster child of Obamanomics

Timothy P. Carney -

January 24, 2018 4:07 am

Photovoltaic modules sit on a factory rooftop in Germany, where many of the company's primary investors are from. (Martin Leissl/Bloomberg)

Beltway Confidential

A dangerous precedent on trade, brought to you by solar panel tariffs

Bryan Riley -

January 23, 2018 3:03 am

The sun sets behind FedEx Field. Three politicians in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia are teaming up across partisan lines to try and prevent their governments from waging a bidding war with public money to build a new stadium for the Washington Redskins. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Business

Hail to the Redskins paying for their own stadium

Washington Examiner -

January 21, 2018 5:01 am

Price increases caused by the mandate's repeal could be revealed by Obamacare insurers right before voters head to the polls in November for the 2018 midterm elections, providing a possible boost for Democrats already favored in the elections.

Healthcare

The Obamacare individual mandate is repealed. Here’s what’s next

Robert King -

January 14, 2018 5:01 am

Despite the United States Postal Service's prominent place in American life, and its $15 billion in outstanding debt, politicians rarely talk about how to improve the Postal Service, let alone actually reform it. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Beltway Confidential

End the Post Office’s monopoly and special privileges

Laura Nicolae -

December 30, 2017 7:25 pm

The oil and biofuel industries worry that EPA could get it wrong in issuing new renewable fuel standards. (AP)

Beltway Confidential

After a record year in Iowa, big ethanol asks for another handout

Philip Wegmann -

December 29, 2017 6:37 pm

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told lawmakers Tuesday he'll combine a new disaster relief package to the spending bill, which would fund the government until Jan. 19. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Healthcare

House to take up bill combining short-term spending with disaster aid

Susan Ferrechio -

December 19, 2017 3:42 pm

Supporting misguided stall tactics in sugar policy like

Business

Big Sugar’s ‘zero for zero’ scam

David Williams -

December 16, 2017 5:01 am

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Tag: Subsidies

Sugar subsidies are anything but sweet

Nuclear plant to close ahead of schedule

The decline and fall of General Electric, the poster child of Obamanomics

A dangerous precedent on trade, brought to you by solar panel tariffs

Hail to the Redskins paying for their own stadium

The Obamacare individual mandate is repealed. Here’s what’s next

End the Post Office’s monopoly and special privileges

After a record year in Iowa, big ethanol asks for another handout

House to take up bill combining short-term spending with disaster aid

Big Sugar’s ‘zero for zero’ scam

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