| Oct 17, 2011 | Economy / BusinessBack in the “Happy Days” of the 1950s and 1960s, most young American couples graduated from high school or college, got married, and immediately bought the most expensive house they could afford. They bought their houses on credit, their cars on credit,...
| Oct 10, 2011 | Economy / BusinessA coalition of big businesses is waging a campaign for a massive tax holiday on corporate profits stashed overseas. Its lobbyists claim that this windfall would create millions of jobs. If our lawmakers buy that, they’ve got very short memories. Just seven years...
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| Oct 5, 2011 | Economy / BusinessSens. Kay Hagan (D-NC) and John McCain (R-AZ) have announced plans to introduce a bill tomorrow that would let U.S. companies bring home as much as $1.4 trillion of overseas profits at a steeply reduced tax rate. However, a new report by the Institute for Policy...
| Oct 4, 2011 | Economy / BusinessA powerful coalition of U.S.-based global companies is lobbying hard for a “tax holiday” on offshore profits. Companies like Google, Apple, Pfizer, and General Electric have parked huge amounts of profits — a stash totaling more than $1.4 trillion...
| Oct 3, 2011 | Economy / BusinessThe burlesque show that is college football has gone about as far as it can go. Each fall it arrives clothed in garments of academic integrity (the players are scholar-athletes, don’t you know) only to peel them off one at a time as the year goes on. This year...
