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Private equity firms are bad and evil because they fire workers to juice profits for billionaires who get to pay low tax rates! Is that the right logic? What if you found out that private equity...
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While not breaking news at this point, there is something that is front and center in banking when it comes to overdraft fees. To many consumers, overdraft fees are simply nothing more than a tax...
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Caesars Entertainment Corporation is supposed to be one of the Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2012. That remains the case, but it is not because we have such admiration nor because of great success. ...
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Facebook, Inc. has now filed its paperwork with the SEC which will allow the social networking giant to conduct an initial public offering. It should be no real surprise that financial terms were...
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The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) may have been a dead stock (or ADR) by most counts. The recapitalization and dilution process here has been almost as uncanny as the bailouts that were given to...
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The White House and some in Congress favor tax breaks for companies that bring back jobs from overseas. It appears that most Americans do as well, which sets up a tension between job creation and an...
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is making a series of management changes today. While this is not the CEO level of the whole company, CEO Mike Duke noted, “Current Sam’s Club President and...
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The Medco Health Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MHS) and Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) merger saga is one which may go down in the financial history books for one of the more long and drawn out...
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Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers. The largest annual...
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Fertilizer stocks are on skid row after the U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed that the unsold corn supplies from December were down about 1% less than what analysts were expecting. Like...
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The US Internal Revenue Service is reopening its Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Progam (OVDP) in an effort to collect income taxes from US taxpayers who have parked their funds in overseas banks. This...
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French president Nicolas Sarkozy has gotten agreement from Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, for a tax on financial transactions. The reaction from Britain, Europe’s financial center, is...
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The gap between what taxpayers owed the IRS and what was paid on time in 2006 was $385 billion. Multiply that by the five years since, and one year of the national deficit would be more than paid...
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The initial public offering market in 2012 is likely to be much stronger than many anticipate. Despite the lingering uncertainty and the underperformance of many popular IPOs in 2011, this year may...
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It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% and the...
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