Apollo is not having much success with its claim that a $188 million paid by Leon Black to Jeffrey Epstein in fees and loans was bona fide.
Read more...The few details that Apollo offered about Leon Black’s relationship to serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein only make things look worse.
Read more...Sanders is about to have considerable influence on spending priorities. Where and how does he have leverage?
Read more...The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
Read more...Another nail in the trickle down economics coffin. Too bad that vampire-like, it keeps coming back.
Read more...The IRS is officially in “No more Mr. Nice Guy” mode with respect to cryptocurrency enforcement.
Read more...Discussing taxation proposals by inequality mavens Emanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
Read more...We are at best only at the end of the beginning of big cities’ Covid-19 pain. What comes next?
Read more...Charity reform would help deploy more funds to address more Covid-19 needs, but the real remedy lies in much bolder government spending.
Read more...Tax is an enormously powerful tool for shaping economic policy and thus bears close watching.
Read more...An update on getting back to normal (not) in New York City.
Read more...Why the Covid-19 bailouts are coming at a high social cost.
Read more...Major cities are in serious trouble and hte outlook is grim.
Read more...David Cameron promised to stop scammers and kleptocrats hiding behind British shell companies. But almost one in ten UK firms still do not declare ‘persons of significant control’
Read more...$1.9 billion in CARES Act tax breaks intended to allow small businesses to keep people employed are instead being funnelled to fossil fuel executives.
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