Created in 1934 to subsidize exports to the debt-repudiating Soviet Union, the U.S. Export-Import Bank is a clear-cut example of wasteful corporate welfare hiding behind economic fallacies. Yet a leading economist, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, somehow managed to tout its merits without blushing.
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Robert Higgs is Retired Senior Fellow in Political Economy, Founding Editor and former Editor at Large of The Independent Review.
| Other Independent Review articles by Robert Higgs | ||
| Fall 2019 | Pressure-Release Valves in Participatory Fascism | |
| Winter 2018/19 | Two Worlds: Politics and Everything Else | |
| Fall 2018 | Against the Whole Concept and Construction of the Balance of International Payments | |
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