Saturday, August 18, 2012

Most U.S. Trade Agreement Improve Trade Balance, but Effect Overwhelmed by NAFTA and China Trade

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The U.S. trade deficit figures heavily in the analysis of Jeff Faux's new book , The Servant Economy . Faux, the founder of the Economic...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

U.S. Trade Deficit Largely Due to "Intra-Firm" Trade (UPDATED)

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The vast majority of the U.S. $727 billion trade deficit in goods for 2011 is due to "intra-firm" or "related party" tra...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

It's the Middle Class, Stupid! (Review)

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When I saw that James Carville and Stan Greenberg had just published It's the Middle Class, Stupid! ( Blue Rider Press ), I knew that I...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

New Estimate of Offshore Wealth Shows Big Increase Since 2004

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A new report by the Tax Justice Network , "The Price of Offshore Revisited," shows that the amount of wealth held in tax havens h...

Will Mitt Romney Release More Tax Returns?

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Results are in for my reader's poll on whether Mitt Romney would release more tax returns . The overwhelming majority, 72%, said no, whi...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

U.S. Trails at Least 15 OECD Countries in Median Wealth

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Via @exiledonline, I learned today (July 18) that Canadians are richer than Americans. This is rather surprising, since GDP per capita is hi...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Is the Noose Closing Around Romney's Tax Returns?

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Problems on my blogging computer have kept me away from here for a week, and a lot sure has happened on the Mitt Romney tax story in that t...
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