…ago Congress in all of its wisdom passed a revision to Dodd-Frank which raised the limit of banks from $50 billion to $250 billion in assets-cash-capital to avoid the Dodd-Frank…

…a slide projector and screen and (c) a way to label and store all the images. Online music streaming: NO. I grew up with vinyl and tapes (reel-to-reel, cassettes and…

…like everybody else’s compensation for work done. I would go further. The Internal Revenue Code provides for capital interests that are received, in a nonrecognition transfer, for contributions of capital…

…apt comment: I prefer not to think of all capital as the same. In particular my pet peeve, the rampant confution of financial “capital” with real capital. Cross-posted at Asymptosis….

Lifted from Robert’s site: Ezra Klein defends an increased capital gains tax as necessary for distributionally neutral base broadening rate lowering tax reform.. I support a higher capital gains tax…

…of capital income and capital gains. I think the special low rates are considered loopholes by the critics of loopholes. I know some economists claim to have calculated significant dead…

…tax. This will benefit the wealthiest of the wealthy, who are the only ones who pay the estate tax now. Retain the 15% rate for capital gains. This will benefit…

…that there are nonetheless real non-tax advantages: (i) reducing adverse selection/moral hazard from information asymetry between insurer and reinsurer and (ii) “allowing risk and capital to be moved more easily…

…financed by foreign inflows of capital (financial account surpluses), so that the currency comes under pressure when foreigners lose confidence in said emerging market economy. As foreign capital flows start…

…Oct. 5, 2011. Balderdash. Low capital gains rates have nothing to do with encouraging investment or capital formation or job creation. They mostly reward investors in the secondary market on…