The Land Grabbers — the review
…Owns the Earth, which I enjoyed very much for its detailed description of the pros and cons resulting from foreigners investing in land in developing countries. In the book, Pearce…
…Owns the Earth, which I enjoyed very much for its detailed description of the pros and cons resulting from foreigners investing in land in developing countries. In the book, Pearce…
Are Richard Williamson and John Bolton—two of Romney’s three main foreign-policy advisors, and reportedly the two most influential—Jewish? Really? Or are they simply under the influence of Dan Senor and…
…foreign bank account reporting and helped catch criminal tax evaders, ended up serving a relatively short prison term (for failure to be entirely forthcoming, in the case of one of…
…issue. Also notice the fuss is over a foreign bank. The U.S. affiliate of global banking giant HSBC was for years a haven for foreign money laundering, drug-trafficking money and…
…American employees of foreign firms as offshoring by American firms is to workers who lose their jobs here. (One might also ask where the borders of corporate patriotism ought to…
…one third of imports as refiners are taking advantage of the lower price of West Texas Intermediate to take foreign markets away from foreign refiners that use the more expensive…
…$200,000 or more who paid no US or foreign income taxes. Adjusted gross income is not economic income–AGI does not reflect items that are excluded from the calculation of income…
…Bretton Woods and the Oil Embargo. On the foreign policy front, Vietnam… well, that wasn’t pretty, but there was the trip to China, and there were a couple missile &…
…on the foreign bank accounts of US taxpayers. The big break came when the IRS was able to get some data from UBS, including information about particular bankers and mechanisms…
…post water power forthe city. A local person who was eventually governor of the state iscredited with bring $6,000,000 of foreign investment into the cityearly turn of the century. At…