Month: April 2021

For decades, the conservative story of trickle-down economics—including, particularly tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, cutting funding for the common good, and deregulation to promote corporate profits at the expense of workers—, was all the rage. Supposedly, it would create much faster growth. Yet massive inequality amid sluggish growth has proven this argument wrong.
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Tech companies are likely to be hit with tax rises this year as a series of new proposals are muted by multilateral organizations. The first is a “solidarity tax” proposed by the IMF, and designed to fix the income gap between rich and poor that has widened over the past year. It proposes rich nations
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Joseph is CEO of TenantCloud, a cloud-based property management solution that helps landlords maximize revenue from rental properties. As the pandemic continues, so too does economic hardship. One year after the national stay-at-home orders that left the entire country bunkered in their homes, our nation is in a housing crisis as many Americans are in danger
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U.S. stock futures moved higher in overnight trading on Thursday after the S&P 500 notched a fresh record in the regular session. Dow futures rose about 50 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.2% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.17%. The major averages rose on Thursday, bolstered by gains in technology stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial
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Wharton School finance professor Jeremy Siegel said Thursday he expects the stock market’s rally will persist at least throughout this year. However, he told CNBC that investors will have to be cautious once the Federal Reserve adjusts its highly accommodative monetary policies. “It isn’t until the Fed leans really hard then you have to worry. I mean,
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By Beau Henderson, Next Avenue If the idea of starting a business after 50 — perhaps a part-time one in retirement — seems overwhelming, you’re not alone. You might want to consider launching through a successful franchise operation, where you can follow in the footsteps of others who’ve done so already. Eric and Pam Knauss launched
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Finally the syndicated conservation easement (SCE) empire strikes back. Battered in Tax Court by the IRS, hounded by the Department of Justice seeking criminal charges and injunctions and beleaguered by class action attorneys SCE appraisers are fighting back with a class action lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury along with some individually named IRS
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