| Oct 10, 2011 | Cartoon|Economy / Business
| 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...
| Sep 26, 2011 | Economy / BusinessI live nine blocks from the U.S. Capitol, so many of my neighbors depend on the government for their livelihoods. A few — a scientist, an editor, a Secret Service agent — belong to that often mocked and rapidly shrinking category known as “civil...
| | Economy / BusinessRepublicans are accusing President Obama of waging class warfare, which is a little like the Japanese complaining about the time Pearl Harbor attacked them in 1941. Still, that’s the Republican Party’s role in life. It’s the defender of the rich and...
