As IRS crusades against Americans hiding money offshore, Latin American tax cheats flock to U.S. banks

By Michael Hudson

U.S. and its banks called "biggest tax haven" in world

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"… taxes in their home countries, according to James S. Henry, a former chief economist for McKinsey & Co. and author of books and papers on offshore money.By …"

"… ican politicians wanting to take on the U.S. as a tax haven,” Henry, the economist and offshore case expert, told iWatch News. “It’s a big source of inco …"

Fact Watch: Playing politics with gasoline prices; both parties make questionable claims

By FactCheck.Org

Democrats and Republicans both demagogue the gasoline price issue

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"… ry gallon — in the third quarter of 2010. Rayola Dougher, API’s senior economist, said she arrived at that figure by dividing net income by total revenues …"

"… empt to calculate how much oil companies earn on a gallon of gasoline. EIA economist Neal Davis told us in 2008 that trying to calculate a per-gallon average p …"

Green bundler with the golden touch

By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

Investor Steve Westly straddles the worlds of venture capital, presidential fundraising and government advising

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"… grants or stimulus money from the Obama Energy Department, a review by the Center for Public Integrity and ABC News has found.Relatively few companies succeed in winning such be …"

"… rogram that aided Tesla and four other car firms.Documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity under a Freedom of Information Act request show that one of the firms turn …"

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GOP deficit-cutters eye health IT stimulus funds as Obama’s point man leaves

By Kimberly Leonard

Billions of unspent stimulus dollars slated for electronic health records are now a target for lawmakers searching the federal budget for cu

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"… say neither House measure is likely to become law in its current form.But economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former head of the Congressional Budget Office and …"

Coal ash: The hidden story

By Kristen Lombardi

Pat Nees never liked the water at the Moose Lodge. Almost everyone in tiny Colstrip, Montana, drank and dined at Lodge #2190, but the well w

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"… conomics, some of EPA’s research seemed weak. Andrew Wittner, the agency economist who analyzed the risks of coal ash from 1995 to 2003 remembers that some t …"

"… ous designation — would prevent more Colstrips. Wittner, the retired EPA economist, argues that, because of the political power of the utilities, “these [i …"

The hidden history

By Kristen Lombardi

The massive coal ash spill in eastern Tennessee in late December is rekindling an old but contentious debate over just how to regulate coal

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"… ion under a “hazardous” designation. As Andrew Wittner, the former EPA economist who studied coal ash’s environmental and health risks back in 2000, puts …"

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Paul Ryan — Budget Committee

By Caitlin Ginley

Paul Ryan went to Congress at the age of 28, representing Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district, which includes farm communities as well as

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"… are in its current form. Although some have been skeptical of the plan — economist Paul Krugman went so far as to call it a “sham” — President Barack O …"

Commentary: Everything I'm telling you is entirely legal

By Charles Lewis

December 21, 2000 — Remarks at the 22nd annual conference of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws in Tampa, Fla., December 5....

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"… level, up roughly 50 percent just since 1996. I’m not a mathematician or economist, but I don’t think inflation went up that much. Two millionaires, George …"

Broke state governments may owe $5.2 billion to big tobacco companies

Broke state governments may owe $5.2 billion to big tobacco companies

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"… rom 36 to 72 percent.The states now disavow this estimate.Jeremy Bulow, an economist at the Stanford Graduate School of Business who has written extensively ab …"

Reform, watched

Want to give an economist a fit? Insist that supply is “better” than demand. Or, as we recently discovered, ask for a quick take on the new

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"… r life?You know, what’s really important about it to you? …"

"… at’s really important about it?” we asked a half dozen or so prominent economists by phone recently.They were polite enough not to sigh.When it comes to ev …"

"… , procedures, and offices created under the sprawling Dodd-Frank Act, even economists don’t know where to begin.It imposes new restrictions on the credit car …"

"… ut when, under what circumstances, and at whose direction remain. Stanford economist Darrell Duffie wonders if the FDIC has the guts to take control of a “to …"

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