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Author Archives: Felix
Tax Loopholes, Cont.
David Cay Johnston has revealed that $3.7 billion of the proceeds
from Blackstone’s IPO will be taxed not at the income-tax rate, not at the capital-gains-tax
rate, but rather at
a negative rate.
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Thursday Links Barely Manage
Does Italy really have better management than the UK?
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Why Enormous Personal Debt Means a More Vibrant Economy
Chris Dillow finds
a silver lining to the ever-increasing amounts of leverage bidding up asset
prices around the world.
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BRICs vs ICs
Justin Fox today lays
out the reasons why Brazil and Rusia pale in importance besides India and
China.
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Why There Aren’t Anti-Collusion Lawsuits in the CDO Mess
A lawyer wants to know whether there might be an antitrust or collusion case
to be brought against Wall Street banks in the wake of the CDO mess.
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Unexpected Correlations: Lead and Crime, Coffee and AIDS
Poverty reduction and AIDS reduction are not always, it would seem, the same thing.
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Adventures in Corporate Doublespeak, Jones Apparel Edition
Jones Apparel CEO Peter Boneparth has
been fired. Bloomberg explains
why:
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John Mackey Still Hasn’t Resigned, And Probably Won’t
The reaction to the John Mackey sockpuppet
scandal has been surprisingly muted this morning.
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Real Estate Leverage Datapoint of the Day
What
on earth are the lenders
to buyers of office buildings thinking?
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When Papers Promise But Don’t Deliver, CDO Edition
I continue my search
for someone who can shed light on exactly what happens to the alphabet soup
of MBS and CDO and CDS when subprime default rates rise.
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John Mackey, Sockpuppet, Should Resign
Mackey should resign as CEO of Whole Foods: he clearly doesn’t have the self-control necessary to run a major public company.
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Why Live Earth Shouldn’t Count Its Viewers
Carl Bialik asks,
apropos the Live Earth estimates of 2 billion viewers: "Is it OK to cite
questionable estimates in service to a good cause?" The answer, of course,
is no. But especially not when the issue is one where the entire moral
high ground is predicated on your having more accurate and reliable numbers
than the other guy.
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Private Equity: Why Higher Taxes Mean Higher Returns
The Epicurean Dealmaker has a
great argument today for abolishing the favorable tax treatement given to
private-equity principals.
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Sun Valley: The Rich and the Reckless
Why doesn’t Barry Diller tie his shoelaces?
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Whether Computers Can Help Poor and Middle-Income Countries
Computers can do many things, but can they make poor countries richer? One
of the leading researchers when it comes to the impact of information and communication
technology (ICT) on development is the World Bank’s Charles Kenny
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Bottled Water
I’m hoping that by the time China becomes the world’s dominant economic power, bottled water will be remembered as a 20th-Century curiosity, rather than a fact of life.
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Trying To Make Sense of the Mortgage-Backed Market
Andrew
Leonard says that I’m "a voice of calm and restraint when the rest
of the econo-blogosphere is racing to the windows to see if the sky has started
to rain suicidal investment bankers". Always happy to help. So let me revisit
the issue of US mortgage-backed bonds, and try to put yesterday’s panic into
a bit of context.
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Mike Bloomberg, Social Networking Mogul
David
Carr, bringing bylines to DealBook, notes that Michael Bloomberg
is going to be hanging out with the MySpace and Facebook honchos (that’s Rupert
Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg, for those of you following
along at home) at Herb Allen’s Sun Valley power klatsch this
week. Carr tells us that Bloomberg "has proven to be one of the most durable
and consistently innovative media barons of our time". What he doesn’t
tell us is that Bloomberg was arguably the world’s first social-networking billionaire.
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The Economics of Book Publishing
If a book like Freakonomics can sell more copies by fudging the science, there’s a good chance that it will.
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Argentina Quietly Starts Making Friends With Energy Companies
Everyone wins. The energy companies get the tariff increases they’ve long been demanding, Argentina gets the energy it needs, and Kirchner gets to keep the whole thing quiet.
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How To Get To AAA
In the CDO market, I’m not convinced that overcollateralization always works particularly well.
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Why the S&P-Triggered Subprime Selloff Makes No Sense
S&P’s announcement today tells us nothing that we haven’t known for months about the subprime market. So count me utterly baffled by the market reaction.
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The Value of the Hilton Brand
Last week was one of the best weeks in Hilton family history: it showed that Barron Hilton, just like his father Conrad, deserves to be remembered as an excellent creator of value in the hospitality industry.
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Anti-Counterfeiting Bill Doing Well in Washington
John McCary of the Wall Street Journal reports today on the Bayh-Voinovich
bill, an anti-counterfeiting bill which got nowhere in 2005 but which has slightly
better prospects now, in the wake of minor revisions.
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Jockeying Ends for IMF Position
Dominique
Strauss-Kahn is the
official EU candidate to lead the IMF, which means he is the next leader
of the IMF.
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