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Sugary beverages such as soda became public enemy number one for public health activists (known to critics as the food police) in 2010. That has led to a call to levy special taxes on the...
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To make the cut onto the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index, a company has to have paid a dividend every year for at least 25 consecutive years. The index includes at least 40 stocks and it is...
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Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma told the FT that new tax cuts, an extension of Bush programs, will send the capital markets a simple message: America does not care about its deficit. Americans only...
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The current Congress does not have much time to do anything before members go home. Some of them will never return. Americans, though, still want Congress to come up with solutions to the...
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Most of the attention paid to the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, currently highlighted by trouble with Ireland, is about sharp cost cuts, higher retirement ages, and new taxes. The collection of...
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In what is surely one of the strangest stories to come out of the election, a Republican member of Congress says that some of her elderly constituents are so worried about their families being...
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“Double Irish” and “Dutch Sandwich” sounds like action movies or detective novels. The last thing that anyone would suspect them to be were sophisticated tax avoidance strategies that...
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Economists who specialize in the effects of taxes on GDP had often made a simple and rational forecast. Tax rates would rise in 2011 because individuals and businesses assumed that tax cuts...
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The estate tax is not and never has been a “death tax” , yet the nickname that critics gave it a few years ago has stuck. That’s a pity because the levy underscores the notion that America is...
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The U.S. Census Bureau has disclosed the endless spending and obligations of the federal domestic spending programs. The numbers for spending increases during 2009 are mind-boggling. Federal...
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The House of Representatives just passed a $26 billion aid package to troubled state and local governments by a 247-to-161 vote. The last formality required for the checks to go out is a signature...
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Dow component Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) and Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) probably would have been soft today with or without an analyst downgrade. The housing data is not compelling enough...
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UK unions may not take to the streets to protest the new austerity budget the way the Greeks or Spanish have. Or, they might. George Osborne, the finance minister, proposed a plan to wring out 113...
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Founders of companies can become worth hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions, when they keep large shareholdings in their companies. The catch is that the companies have to succeed. ...
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The Australian government's proposed 40% super profits tax has caused a considerable uproar among mining companies operating in that country. BHP Billiton has said it would use all its influence to...
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