Cold_Zero wrote:

Encryptshun wrote:Exampes of other "state-subsidized" businesses in the U.S.

Exxon
Shell
BP
Mobil
PG&E
Exelon
Nicor
United States Postal Service
Monsanto
Pioneer
AT&T
Con-Agra
and every single independent and corporate farm.

You forgot the biggies, the GSEs:
Freddie Mac
Fannie Mae
Federal Home Loan Bank
Student Loan Marketing Association
Direct Lending (Quasi Government Agency, like the Post Office)

True. But the agencies in your list (as well as the USPS) aren't "for profit" or aren't publicly-traded companies.

You quoted "examples of other "state-subsidized" businesses in the U.S." I was just providing other examples as well. And actually, the first two were at the fore front of the Sub Prime Lending Scandal. It should be pointed out that FHLB was NOT.

IBCoupe wrote:"[F]ailed state-subsidized Solyndra-like green businesses" is where it lost me. And the cite to "American Spectator" at the end assured me that skipping the stuff in between was the right choice.

Ach du liebe zeit!
http://en.dgap.org/2011/03/07/%E2%80%9C ... %E2%80%9D/

You know the conservative conspiracies of the DGAP! Sehr Interessant!
There are a ton of articles on the Swedish Reforms that are very interesting. I am trying to trudge through the 50 page EU documents that the Swedish Government submitted.