Posts Tagged ‘ global bank regulation ’

where have we heard this before?

Today NPR ran a story about a bill before the Senate that would close a controversial tax loophole. Investment fund managers, ranging from hedge funds to real estate funds, can structure their income–”carried interest income”–to be paid at the long term capital gains rate of 15%, instead of the top income tax rate of...

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capture ii: economic capture and the myth of overbearing regulation

There was a time when we worried that concentrations of economic power would destroy competition and even distort the political process. Yet despite the fact that such distortions are in fact occurring in the financial arena, for one, we seem either less concerned or less aware of the problem than when antitrust enforcement was...

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