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…you like iTunes, you’ll love John Kerry. Buffet did advise Shwarzenegger as well, but I won’t hold that against him. Maybe he’ll address it in his next shareholder’s letter. AB…

McKinsey on Dividend Taxes

…top left of the sidebar), I argued that eliminating dividend taxes would increase the pressure on managers to distribute funds to shareholders and this would be a good thing because…

…firm, shareholders. There are actually two ways that firms can give money back to shareholders, the most obvious is to pay dividends in the way described in this post. The…

Turns out Alito isn’t the only justice who conflates the Securities Exchange Act with state-law corporate-structure statutes. Roberts does, too! (Unless, that is, racial-minority-owned corporations are denied access to restaurants and hotels when traveling. Or something.)

…says the derivative nature a provision of law that provides a right to “persons” comes from the personal closeness of its shareholders to the corporation, then Citizens United should be…

The IMF and Ukraine

…of the IMF by the U.S., the largest shareholder, to pursue its international strategic goals even though the U.S. Congress will not approve reforms in the IMF’s quota system. Ukraine’s…

What the Supreme Court’s refusal today to agree to decide whether to strike down the federal statute that bars corporations from making contributions directly to candidates and political parties might suggest about the outcome of Hobby Lobby

…the First Amendment rights of their human-citizen shareholders. Which presents the question of why CEOs of publicly-traded corporations should be entitled under the guise of the First Amendment’s speech clause…

Can the SEC prohibit publicly-traded corporations from making political expenditures (and, eventually, direct campaign contributions) unless the corporation first gets approval from a majority of shareholders?

…Amendment rights of their shareholder citizens. This issue–whether corporations themselves have First Amendment rights, or instead only have First Amendment rights derivative of their shareholders–is front-and-center in the Hobby Lobby/Conestoga…