…avoiding the estate tax with a GRAT) 4. the estate freeze (using an intentionally defective grantor trust and debt to freeze the value of an estate–and avoid estate taxes on…

…“free markets” pushed by the right and the Chicago School economic perspective, they don’t understand the failures of the “free market” theory –for example, that it cannot accurately predict much…

…market policies have been far less successful. Over time, Reaganomic trickle-down, free market policies have given us first, the Great Stagnation, and ultimately the worst economic crisis in 80 years….

…in financial markets. The last specification is still the SWπ-FF, except that we use observations for the federal funds rate and spreads for the quarter that just ended and for…

…free market system can never fail, it can only be failed. Following shocks a country can switch from being key examples of free markets working to key examples of government…

…“The Supreme Court’s corporate monsters–if money buys them “free speech” rights, can it help them avoid giving others human rights?” The title of mine was “International Law, As Established At…

…put to constructive use, we have problems. Think habeas corpus, FISA, election fraud, threatening of the press, intimidation of speech, extension of free speech to none human entities, the equating…

…if it happens through random selection in a lab, alters you on a very basic level, making you “less attentive to others, more free to act, and more free to…

…and energy sectors, forge trade ties with growing markets including China, Russia and South America — and even contemplate a free trade agreement with the United States. How scared are…