Wolf Richter: Which US Companies Stockpile the Most Profit “Overseas?” But Where the Heck is the Money?
ebunking the mythology of overseas “profit”.
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Tax-Dodging Corporate Inversions Accelerating
New rules by the US Treasury to curb corporate inversions haven’t done enough to slow the rising tide.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Warning to Europe – How the TTIP Threatens Public Health Care and Pensions
Why the TTIP poses a wide-ranging threat to European health and pension policies.
Read more...Noam Chomsky: American Power Under Pressure
Seeing states as the vehicle for projecting power is dated, particularly as far as understanding America’s position is concerned.
Read more...TTIP: We Were Right All Along
The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.
Read more...When Commodity Prices Fall
Decomposing the drivers and effects of commodity price swings.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Gimme Shelter (From the Tax Man), Disappearing Money and Opportunistic Candidate
It should come as no surprise that none of the mainstream Presidential candidates stack up well on the issues of tax avoidance and evasion.
Read more...Lessons from Iceland, Where Offshore Created an Onshore Bubble Free of Rules and Regulations
In Iceland, the rapid growth of offshore, meaning tax evasion, along with harmful, even criminal, practices produced a massive boom and bust.
Read more...“Free Trade” in Trouble in the United States
“Free trade” policies, in a world of substantially liberalized trade, no longer elicit knee-jerk support. About time.
Read more...Greenpeace Leak Exposes Big EU-US Rifts, US Thuggishness, in TTIP “Trade” Negotiations
A leak of a major set of TTIP documents may throw a spanner in the works of a deal that is already contested in the US and EU.
Read more...A Simple “Trade” Solution to Boost Workers Across the Planet
There’s a progressive way to approach global trade that can help workers abroad and at home at the same time.
Read more...Trade Costs of Border Controls in the Schengen Area
Granular analysis of the cost of imposing border controls along refugee routes versus ending the Schengen system, as well as who has the most to lose.
Read more...Don Quijones: A Blow to Transatlantic Corpocracy – Support for TTIP Begins to Unravel
Why the TTIP “trade” deal is looking wobbly.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Donald Trump – Campaigning on America’s Decline
Trump’s campaign is proof of America’s decline….but not in the way you think.
Read more...#panamapapers: Questioning the Picture Painted in the WSJ’s Interview With Jürgen Mossack
A sceptical look at Jürgen Mossack’s WSJ interview
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