Friday, April 12, 2013

Good News on Tax Havens

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The mega-research project on tax havens I told you about in November has borne its first fruit. In a data dump 160 times the size of that ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

How High Does Senior Poverty Have to Go?

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It's official: President Obama has proposed cutting Social Security by replacing the program's current inflation adjustment with th...
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Trans Pacific Partnership Bad for the Middle Class: Just How Bad is the Question

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What you don't know can hurt you. I think that's a clear lesson of some so-called trade agreements the United States has signed over...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

EU Proposes Tighter Rules on Investment Incentives

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The European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition is the EU equivalent of the U.S. Department of Justice Anti-trust Division...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Speaking of Inequality (with correction)

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Travis Waldron at Think Progress pointed out this excellent article by David Cay Johnston . It dovetails well with my last post , which sho...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Real Wages Decline; Literally No One Notices

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Your read it here first: Real wages fell 0.2% in 2012, down from $295.49 (1982-84 dollars) to $294.83 per week, according to the 2013 Econom...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

EU Chooses Bank Runs Over Fighting Tax Haven Cyprus

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NPR's "Marketplace" reported Monday that the European Union planned to impose a tax on bank deposits in Cyprus of up to 10% t...