…to the United States. The most prolific source of pharmaceutical imports, Ireland, which shipped around $16 billion worth of pharmaceutical products to the U.S. in 2003, up from about $2…

…undo this patent determination. See Kristina Hubbard, Monsanto’s Growing Monopoly: what the Supreme Court got wrong: patents on self-replicating seed are unethical, dangerous and anti-competitive, Salon.com (May 30, 2013). http://ataxingmatter.blogs.com/tax/2013/05/links-worth-noting-tax-breaks-for-wealthy-corporate-tax-seed-conglomerates.html…

…build up a few more assets and retire. For my American readers, it is worth noting that Piketty claims that the United States today (meaning 2010) has the highest level…

If you equate wealth and prosperity (not a crazy equation), then one of the best measures of a country’s prosperity is median household net worth. It arguably says a lot…

…few closing comments. Given the election is coming up, it is worth noting that Hilary and Trump are on opposite sides of both the tax and immigration issues. Hilary’s proposed…

…reached a new height with this latest visit and arms deal, arranged by former Exxon Mobil CEO and now SecState, Tillerson. It is worth noting also that for most of…

…of expressing white identity in an increasingly diverse nation. … Trump also did better in counties experiencing a loss in manufacturing since 2000. Here’s her graph: It’s worth noting that…

…at one point as a job-increasing policy. Dean Baker at Beat the Press responded to all this with two days worth of posts defending the factual basis of Mnuchin’s claim…

…this company worth? The answer should be that it is worth 100 times dividends. Krugman was assuming real growth = 3% and a real interest rate = 4% back in…

…government paycheck during an economic contraction, the economic stimulus will have to take some other form. It is worth noting that roughly 35 percent of the working age population does…