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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Auto Bailout Comes to Russia


“Known as Avtovaz for short, it is one of the least efficient automobile factories anywhere in the world — each worker produces, on average, eight cars a year, compared with 36 cars a year at General Motors’ assembly line in Bowling Green, Ky., for example. Yet the [Russian] government is giving Avtovaz … billions of dollars in aid, no strings attached.” (New York Times, Tuesday)

Following the U.S. lead?

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“Socialism and Incentives” by David Osterfeld


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.