…foreign market U.S. tax laws encourage investing in a foreign country instead of bringing profits back home: Because U.S.-based employers face additional taxes if they bring their overseas earnings back…

…561,000 inbound medical tourists to the United States by 2017….Conversely, 750,000 Americans traveled to foreign countries in 2007, and this grew to between 1.1 and 1.3 million outbound tourists in…

Once of the things that was clear at CGI this week is that the power companies that have looked into alternative energy sources have quickly realised they are not only…

…depreciation for leaseholds, restaurants, aircraft, and syndication property; S corporation expansion; AMT breaks; more cross-crediting of foreign tax credits; more tax expenditures for the Big Oil, Big Timber and Big…

…for production in the United States. Foreign governments, along with large U.S. multinationals concerned about possible foreign retaliation, charge this favors American-based companies. That’s not quite true. Foreign companies are…

I’ve always suspected longtime reader OldVet of consorting with foreigners. Sadly, my worst fears were confirmed just now, when he sent me this e-mail: _____________________________________________________________________ This morning I got the…

…of GDP, and net income payments to foreign owners of capital of 4% of GDP. A net foreign asset position of -100% of U.S. GDP is conceivable: Britain, after all,…

…world to hold dollar-denominated assets has been made significantly easier by the fact that some foreign central banks have been purchasing huge quantities of dollar assets, as Brad Setser points…

…not usually consider the impact of its policy directives on foreign economies. On the other hand, the Fed is well aware of the feedback from foreign economies to the U.S….

…each country. Call this a in Home and a* in Foreign (stars for Foreign is traditional.) And let’s assume that a* < a. That is, Foreign has a comparative advantage…