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Will the military aviation industry get nationalized? A battle for the industry’s future

July 16, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

“If our industrial base collapses any more, we’ll have to nationalize advanced aviation and maybe other parts of the Air Force that currently are competitive,” […]

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50 years of state-planned technology

March 8, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Mr. Chairman, I believe we are in a de facto situation of nationalized high technology industry. All that is left is to formalize the arrangement. […]

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Are defense firms really public firms?

December 18, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

In 1969 John Kenneth Galbraith penned a piece for the New York Times titled The Big Defense Firms Are Really Public Firms and Should be Nationalized arguing, among other things, that it was folly for defense contractors to claim that they were private corporations.

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