…compensation consultants and poorly informed compensation committees. Compensation committees only get the information the CEO wants them to have, and are often chosen by the CEO. So they turn to…
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Moving in the right direction: US, UK, Aussies to share tax info
…information they have without requiring the requesting country to have already identified the accountholder well enough to ask for information specifically about that person. If they can ask specifically, of…
Useful information on 501(c)(4)s and 527s and the IRS’s scrutiny dilemma
by Linda Beale Useful information on 501(c)(4)s and 527s and the IRS’s scrutiny dilemma A fellow tax professor at Loyola University, Ellen Aprill, has put together a useful powerpoint on…
What Obligations Do Mainstream Media Editors (e.g., The Washington Post’s) Have to Bar Their Regular Political Columnists (e.g., Michael Gerson) From Stating Bald Misrepresentations of Fact?
Compare: When people realize that their most personal, sensitive, intimate, private health-care information is in the hands of the IRS that’s been willing to use people’s tax information against political…
CBO’s 2015 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information
CBO’s 2015 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information The Social Security Policy Options, 2015 was not the only report released by CBO yesterday. You have this one filling out…
Did NYC FBI Agents Plant Those Emails on Weiner’s Computer Once They Gained Custody of It? The Evidence Appears to Suggest … Possibly.
…to have acceded to an extortionate threat to misuse information gained through the FBI’s prosecutorial powers by himself misusing information gained through the FBI’s prosecutorial powers. And this spade is…
Several thoughts about Paul Krugman’s NYT column today – UPDATED regarding the Fourth Amendment issue, and (separately) the suddenly real possibility that Putin had the emails planted on Weiner’s laptop
…profound misuse of government investigatory and prosecutorial powers to release to the public raw information obtained through compulsory, and secret, investigatory information gathering—information gained through search warrants, grand jury testimony,…
Eric Lichtblau vs. Eric Lichtblau: Why is the NYT hiding key information that the FBI knows but claims not to know (and that Lichtblau knows because he played a role in it) about the connection between a Trump organization server and Alpha Server, a huge Russian bank with connections to Putin?
…Lichtblau knows: that the scientists Foer and, as I understand it, Lichtblau have received their information concluded a month or two ago that that explanation is virtually impossible. Nor does…
Glenn Greenwald & the Nunes memo
…the memo, but they knew it had been written by people who had access to classified information, that they didn’t know what was in the memo, and that it was…
Stock of Debt Held by US Public Has Tripled Over the Last Decade & Other Misleading Information
Stock of Debt Held by US Public Has Tripled Over the Last Decade & Other Misleading Information My title was the heading of Figure 19 in something from Deutsche Bank…