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...Forbes' plan would do little to disabuse taxpayers of the notion that the rich get a better deal from the tax system. Under his proposal, an investor in Boca Raton, Florida, who racks up $500,000 in income from bonds, stock dividends and capital gains would pay no income tax at all, while a teacher in Detroit earning $50,000 would pay $6,290. Because Forbes has yet to release all the details of his proposal, it is impossible to evaluate how it would affect middle-class Americans. However, an analysis of Representative Dick Armey's 17% flat tax done...
...further requests that President Neil L. Rudenstine sign letters to Shell Oil, a leading investor in Nigeria in which the University is reportedly a shareholder, "expressing out-rage and dismay at the executions...
...edging toward 5000 for most of last week, the Dow Jones industrial average topped the milestone by three points briefly on Monday before slipping back to close at 4,983.09. "The 5000 point mark is a psychological barrier that has no inherent significance, but is an important indicator of investor confidence in the economy," says TIME's Bernard Baumohl. "It is a sign that investors are pleased that the budget is on the way to getting balanced, and also that they believe that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates by the end of this year. I expect that sometime...
Born in Los Angeles, Gurwin knew early on that he wanted to be a reporter. Anticipating future interviews with tape recorder-skittish subjects, he learned shorthand in high school. After majoring in journalism at New York University, he wrote for Institutional Investor magazine, first in New York City, then from Hong Kong and London...
Well, almost every investor. Last year Steinhardt hit a speed bump, as did most other big hedge funds like George Soros' Quantum Group and Julian Robertson's Tiger Management. Neither however, suffered as badly as Steinhardt's funds, which lost 29% of their value during 1994, owing largely to the plummeting price of European bonds, in which Steinhardt had invested heavily. Says he: "I made a vast amount of money in 1993 on the same bet. Nevertheless, the pain in 1994 was far greater than the pleasure...