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...recent stumbles in Blackstone and Fortress shares might also point to another looming risk - that Congress will change the way such firms are taxed. Legislation introduced in the Senate on June 14 would tax financial-services partnerships as corporations, raising their rate from 15% to as much as 35%. The next day, Fortress shares dropped nearly 7% on heavy trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should You Bet on a Hedge Fund? | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...companies is to consider what else might get you similar exposure. Often the answer is a more traditional investment bank such as Goldman Sachs, which runs the nation's largest hedge fund. Plus it trades at 10 times earnings, less than half of Blackstone, and doesn't have its tax bracket being debated by Congress. In fact, many Wall Street firms have significant divisions devoted to alternative investments. Among them, fund manager Schutz most likes Morgan Stanley for its lower valuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should You Bet on a Hedge Fund? | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...Years before he was put on trial for tax fraud, racketeering and other charges, Black, through his Hollinger empire, controlled one of Canada's two national newspapers, a top newsmagazine and more than 60% of the country's community newspapers. He gave up his Canadian citizenship in 2001 to accept a peerage in the British House of Lords, becoming Lord Black of Crossharbour, but he was already the equivalent of Canadian royalty. More outspoken, more opinionated and certainly far richer than the typical Canuck, he seemed to enjoying being in the newspapers almost as much as he did publishing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada's Conrad Black Conflict | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...provide funding for the federal government - over a dispute concerning earmarks, those sneaky provisions lawmakers place into bills that typically allot funds for projects in their home districts. Bush, in his June 16 radio address, also focused on earmarks - and referred to the Democrats with that old-school label: "tax-and-spend." Most significantly, Bush has vowed to veto any appropriations bill that comes in above the amount he has specifically asked for. That's most of them. Come late summer or early fall, a showdown between the President and Congress could be in the cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bush Budget Showdown Brewing | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

...wheeling idyll in this former navy base - an overgrown woodland spotted with lakes and pretty redbrick and wood houses that provides a retreat for artists, musicians and free-thinkers of all stripes in a self-declared "free state" that flies its own flag and does not pay market property tax rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Last Commune Braces for Battle | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

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