Friday, January 20, 2012

Romney's Cayman Explanations Don't Tell the Whole Story, Says Tax Haven Expert

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Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo has a story purporting to tell us the "real deal" on Mitt Romney's investments in secret...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The Case Against SOPA and PIPA in Plain English

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If you read the Internet much at all, you have probably heard (or seen) that Wikipedia and many other websites are blacked out today in prot...
Monday, January 16, 2012

S&P 500 Company Aon to Flee Taxes by Redomiciling in London

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Giant insurance firm Aon has decided to break new ground in corporate redomiciling by moving its headquarters to the United Kingdom from Chi...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

U.S. Health Not #1: Deconstructing Legatum Part 2 of 2

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As I reported on December 9 , London's Legatum Institute issued the 2011 edition of its Prosperity Index , in which the United States sc...

Mitt Romney's Steel Dynamics Took Subsidies Not Once, But Twice, Under Bain's Ownership

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Mitt Romney touts the virtues of free markets and the dangers of government intervention, yet when Bain Capital became the largest owner of ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

You Can't Fire Your Insurance Company When You're Sick

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Aaron Carroll (h/t Brad DeLong and Mark Thoma) takes down Mitt Romney on what he really meant by his "I like to fire people" quot...
Monday, January 9, 2012

IRS finds U.S. tax evasion $385 billion per year, suggesting Tax Justice Network numbers are right

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On Friday, the IRS released a new report on tax evasion in the U.S . (via Demos' Policy Shop and h/t to @BlogWood). Using data for 2006...