Free Lunch (42 page)

“medical loss ratio”

Medicare

fraud

Part D, legislative process creating

Medicare Training & Consulting

Mellon,
Andrew

Merrill Lynch

Metro New York

Mexico, U.S. trade
with

Micrel Corporation

Microsoft

MidAmerican Energy Company

middle class

distribution
of income in the U.S. and

government
investment in

Milken, Michael

Miller, Douglas

Modell, Art

Montgomery, Betty

Montreal Expos

moral hazard

morality

rules based on

Morgan Stanley

Morgenson, Gretchen

Morris, Johnny

mortgage debt

mortgage interest deduction

mortgage loans

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

Mullaly, John

Mullaly Park

mutual funds

fees charged investors

Nader, Ralph

Nardelli, Bob

National Association of Insurance
Commissioners

national security

foreign acquisition of American companies and

National Transportation Safety Board

Native
Americans

Abramoff's dealings
with

Navy, U.S.

negative
Commerce Clause

Nelnet

net worth,
median

New Deal

New Jersey
Nets

New Jersey Public Advocate

New York
City

baseball stadiums

Independent Budget Office

parks

New York Mets

New York
Observer, The

New York State, health care fraud in

New York Times, The

New York Yankees

Ney, Bob

Nickles, Don

Nixon, Richard M.

health care system and

Noe, Larry

nonprofits

HMOs as

sale of assets of

Norfolk Southern

Norquist, Grover

Northrop

Northwest Airlines

offshoring

oil
industry

cartels and oil
prices

tax credits
for

Old Republic International Corporation

oligopoly

Olson, Pamela

Olson, Theodore B.

Oppidan Investment
Company

Oregonian

Oregon Public Utility Commission

Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

original intent theory

Ostrowski, James

PacificCorp.

Pacific Gas and Electric
Company

Paine, Thomas

Palank,
Angelica

Palank, Paul

Parker,
Doug

park systems

in Los Angeles

New York City

underfunding of

partnership
rules

Pataki, George

Paul, Ron

Peeno, Dr. Linda

Pell grants

Penn Central

Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation
(PBGC)

pension funds

changes in pension-funding rules

executive pensions

government-guarantees

invested in hedge funds

Perry,
Rick

Petit Trianon

pharmaceutical
companies

Piketty, Thomas

pilots, pensions
of airline

PILOTs (payments in lieu of taxes)

Plonsey, Jim

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poet, Jeff

Polanyi, Karl

police, burglar alarm systems and

political finance
reform

Portland, Oregon

Portland General
Electric

poverty

costs of

Powell, Jody

power to address our problems

Preston
Gates

Price, Herb

prices

collusion and

electricity,
see
electricity
prices

in a free
market

subsidies and increases
in

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Princeton-Newport Partners

principles to guide economic
policy

private letter rulings, IRS

“Problem of
Social Cost, The,”

Proposition 13, California's

Public Citizen

punitive damages awards

“Purloined Letter, The,”

Putka, Gary

Quellos (financial boutique)

qui tam
lawsuit

railroad travel, safety of

Palank case

Rangel, Charles

Reagan, Ronald, and Reagan
administration

health care system
and

income tax rates
under

privatization of government
functions

Recycled Paper Greetings

Reed, Ralph

referral fees

regulation (rules)

favoring
the rich, powerful, and politically connected

hiding behind the

moral or practical basis of

penalties for misconduct

power to control and shape

public safety and

self-enforcing

of trade

see
also
deregulation;
specific industries

Rehnquist, Chief Justice William

religious
earmarks

Renaissance Technologies Corporation

retail subsidies

Reuters

reverse competition

Reynolds, Catherine B.

Reynolds Foundation

Rhone-Poulenc
Rohrer

Road to Serfdom, The
(Hayek)

Robbins, William G.

Roberts, Chief
Justice John Glover, Jr.

Rohrbacher, Dana

Rojas, Warren

Ross, Jack

Rove, Karl

Russian government, hedge-fund meltdown of
1998 and

Sacramento Municipal Utility
District

Saez, Emmanuel

safety, regulation of
public

Sallie Mae

Sanders,
Bernie

San Hua New Material High-Tech Inc.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Saud, House of

Schaeffer, Leonard

Scholes, Jan

Scholes, Myron S.

Schori, Jan

Schultz, Howard

Schultz, James T.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Scott, Richard I.

Scott, Robert E.

Scully, Thomas A.

Searcy, Christian D.

Seattle Mariners

Seattle Seahawks

Seattle Sonics

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Sempra
Energy

Senate Finance Committee

Senate
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

separation of powers

service jobs

Sextant Group

Shapiro, Irving

Shark, Myer

Shearman & Sterling

Shea Stadium

Showalter, Marilyn

Shrum, Bob

Signatures restaurant

Silicon Valley Power

Simons, James

SLM Corporation

Smith, Adam

on allocation
of scare goods

“invisible
hand”

on prices in a free
market

on
subsidies

on unchecked
self-interest

Smith, Brad

Smith, Nick

Smith, Terral

Smith, Tom

Smith, William French

“smoothing,”

Snead, Thomas G.

Snohomish County Public Utility District

Snow, John
W.

Social Security

Sodd,
Glenn

solutions, proposed

Souter, Justice
David

Sowell, Thomas

Sparrow,
Malcolm

Spaziani, Carol

sports leagues and
teams

ballparks,
see
ballparks

exemption from laws of competition

financial disclosure

source of profits

threatening to move

sports stadiums,
see
ballparks

Stark, Fortney “Pete,”

Stat Resources

Stecklow, Steve

Steenland, Douglas

Steinbrenner, George

parkland seized for new stadium

Steuerle, Gene

Stewart Information Services

stock options

Black-Scholes method of valuing

illegal practices

strike price

stranded costs

StudentLoanJustice.org

student loans

subprime mortgage loans

subsidies

costs versus benefits of

as drag on national economy

price increases and

Adam Smith on

see also
specific
recipients of subsidies

Supreme
Court, U.S.

corporate welfare
and

CSX case
and

Major League Baseball
and

usury laws
and

Talukdar,
Sarosh

Target

Tate, Sheila

Tauzin, Billy

Taxation: The
People's Business
(Mellon)

taxes

after-tax income of bottom half of
Americans

alternative minimum
tax

George W. Bush's income tax
returns