Word: capitalisme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Putin-Khodorkovsky conflict goes way beyond taxes. Yukos did indeed pay tax well below the statutory rate of 24%, notes Paul Collison, an oil analyst with Brunswick UBS brokers, just like many Western oil companies do in other parts of the world. The practice is not necessarily illegal, and...
Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 and former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay violated the False Claims Act by making investments in Russia through family while advising the Russian government on its transition to capitalism under a $34 million contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development...
The real Reagan years, the years of red suspenders and corporate takeovers, of Bonfire of the Vanities and big hair, were shorter than they seem in memory. They began around the middle of his first term, after the 1981 recession gave way to the boom years, and ended midway through...
Not so, say Buruma and Margalit. They argue that when bin Laden and his acolytes accuse the U.S. and Europe of decadence, materialism and sexual immorality, they are largely recycling ideas and language that originated in the West. The authors point out that even as Western Europe and America began...
But the popular opposition in Liverpool to the attempt by Thaksin to buy part of the club suggests this tolerance of globalization has its limits. I very much doubt that those who don't want Thaksin's money care two hoots about his political record or the fact that he...