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...most perilous assumption about driving down the budget deficit is that, if the number of people out of work over the next two years moves up to the level where unemployment stays above 10% for any period of time, tax revenue into the Treasury will be so badly impaired that cutting costs in some large programs will not be able to make up for it. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...billion to help Asian countries with development projects to help stimulate their economies [Jan. 26]. This seemingly altruistic gesture is typical of Japan's long-term focus. They recognize that consumers in the developed countries are not going to resume their past spending patterns any time soon, despite tax cuts and rebates. But if the economies of developing countries can be grown, then their people will eventually become the replacement consumers and will buy goods produced in Japan and other hard-hit manufacturing/exporting countries. This is why it is so important not to delay projects like DESERTEC and the Sahara...
...Lower taxes might eventually create some jobs, but their efficacy has been recently tested with the Bush tax rebates. They didn’t work well. A new hypothesis should be that investing in infrastructure revives a failing economy better than lowering taxes. Roosevelt tried this, and it worked...
...Earl has doggedly pursued waste, fraud and mismanagement [and] has the reputation of being one of the best inspector generals that we have in this town. I can't think of any more tenacious and efficient guardian of the hard-earned tax dollars the American people have entrusted us to wisely invest." - Barack Obama...
...ECHR are small or are duplicate complaints submitted by different plaintiffs. But in January, the ECHR announced a doozy: it said oil giant Yukos, which was effectively shut down by Moscow in 2006, three years after its boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was thrown into prison on charges of fraud and tax evasion, could proceed with a lawsuit seeking $34 billion in damages against the Russian government. It is the largest claim the ECHR has agreed to consider and the first ever involving a corporation. The financial and political fallout from an ECHR judgment could be immense...