Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
``Yes, there is a mortgage interest deduction, and a capital gains exclusion for a primary residence - but there is also a property tax for real estate. This is a tax disadvantage compared to stocks and bonds.''
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: Goldman Sachs Offshores Its Profits and Reduces Its Taxes to 1%; ``globalization has become just another enabler, wherein multinational financial corporations can play a larger set of jurisdictions and peoples against one another for the benefit of an elite minority.''
1; Goldman Sachs Offshores; Jesse's Café Américain; profits; reduce; tax.
Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST
by Joseph Henchman; Federal Officials Encouraged Leasebacks, Then Made Them Worthless for Creditors
AIG Collapse; bindings; SILOs deals; Tax Foundation; transit agency.
Mon 2008-11-03 00:00 EST
capital gains tax treatments; ``bull markets and bear markets don't exist in observable reality only in hindsight''
2008; Hussman Funds; November 3; Value Dinosaurs; weekly market comments.
Tue 2008-10-28 00:00 EDT
``money is taken from the poor (via taxes, printing, and weakening of the dollar) and given to the wealthy so the wealthy supposedly will have enough money to lend back (at interest) to those who have just been robbed''
essence; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis; plans; rescue.
Sun 2008-07-06 00:00 EDT
"The System is Broken. We're Entering a Two Economy Society": An Interview with Michael Hudson, by Mike Whitney; democracy precedes oligarchy; reframing tax policy; fraudulent conveyance applied to minimize foreclosure; "Credit is a product that's almost free to create. Its main cost of production is the lobbying expense to buy Congressional support."
broken; Economy Society; enters; interview; Michael Hudson; Systems.
Thu 2008-06-12 00:00 EDT
Angry Bear: Kudlow's Supply-Side Stupidity: Less Savings = More Investment!; tax deferral not tax cut unless accompanied by spending cuts
Angry Bear; investment; Kudlow's Supply-Side Stupidity; save.
Wed 2008-05-14 00:00 EDT
Richard Posner suggests "heavy taxes on oil or (better) carbon emissions"; lack of political will imples "democratic failure" to address long-term problems
Wed 2008-05-14 00:00 EDT
Tax assessors boggled by housing dip, by D. L. Bennett | ajc.com; "For less than the price of a decent used car, you can buy a home in Atlanta today."
Thu 2007-12-13 00:00 EST
by Elaine Meinel Supkis; Fed auction plan; saving system collapsed; "these tax cheats...will work with our government to continue the destruction of America"
Wed 2006-10-04 00:00 EDT
Your Tax Dollars at Work, by Matt Taibbi (defense appropriations)
