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"The Cato Institute, a longtime critic of sports subsidies, said on its blog last week: 'Our conclusion, and that of nearly all academic economists studying this issue, is that professional sports generally have little, if any, positive effect on a city's economy. The net economic impact of professional sports in Washington, D.C., and the 36 other cities that hosted professional sports teams over nearly 30 years, was a reduction in real per-capita income over the entire metropolitan area.'"