…capital! That proves that high taxes on capital cause slow growth!” First of all, even if such a correlation existed, that wouldn’t prove anything by itself. There are a host…

…on the emerging markets and not enough on the volatile capital flows that can overwhelm their financial markets. Capital outflows—particularly those large outflows known as “sudden stops”—are often attributed to…

…should “count” as qualified capital when the transferor partner had a more limited qualified capital account. Remember that purchasers of interests from interest holders do not add capital to the…

…long-term investment”. He claims that carried interest is clearly a tax on capital gains merely because the capital gains on investments in the partnership is passed through to the service…

…France (Figure 3.2), and Germany (Figure 4.1), total capital fell below 300% of GNI in the period encompassing World War I and World War II. By 2010, total capital was…

Whither Social Capital? This past Friday there was yet another retirement conference, this time honoring “Mr. Social Capital,” Robert S. Putnam, who is retiring from Harvard’s Kennedy School at age…

…of capital to work will would tax the rich till they starved. A critique of the standard anti capital income taxation program should conclude “it is not until capital income…

Via Taxprog blog: Bartlett: Mitt Romney, Carried Interest and Capital Gains New York Times: Mitt Romney, Carried Interest and Capital Gains, by Bruce Bartlett: A key reason for Mr. Romney’s…

…his ordinary decisions. His hedge fund, Bain Capital, has also made the news as a participant in a claimed conspiracy of hedge funds to deflate the prices they pay for…

by Linda Beale Romney’s Private Equity Magic Trick–equity manager’s gain, taxpayers’ losses (Reich Video) Mitt Romney claims that his business experience at Bain Capital is a superb qualification for the…