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Marginal benefits

by cactus How much are all those folks at the various TARP corporate welfare recipients worth? We’re being deluged with stories about how many executives at such institutions are leaving…

SILOs –more action needed?

labeled the “American Jobs Creation Act” to signal the purported justification for all the corporate tax breaks. It didn’t lead to the creation of many jobs.) The new section disallowed…

The Internet and the Productivity Speedup

…Iaccoca was very famous for a while, the guy after Caldwell — Donald Peterson — was a corporate hero for a while. Caldwell was a subject that the business press…

How Big Should the Financial Services Industry Be ?

…in Surowiecki’s article is the following This meant that the economy became, and has remained, far more competitive, while corporate performance became far more volatile. In the nineteen-eighties, companies moved…

Leona Helmsley Omnibus Tax Reform Act of 2009

…together. Because what seem to be totally different arguments end up delivering the same outcome. We can start with the corporate income tax. The argument here is that it represents…

Industrial Production

…measured by the PPI and unit labor cost implies that corporate and/or S&P 500 profit margins are now falling at post WW II record rates. Together with sharply falling output…

Due process rights

…citizenship. Here is the 5th Amendment “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury,…