guardian.co.uk - 11/9/2008
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President-elect Barack Obama plans to crack down on international tax havens, including Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, within weeks of taking power in January, putting him on a collision course with Gordon Brown. There is growing international pressure to outlaw the secretive practices of ...
bloomberg.com - 11/13/2008
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bloomberg.com —
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama is
pushing Congress this year to approve as much as...
$50 billion to save cash-starved U.S. automakers and appoint a czar or board to oversee the companies, a move that would require President George ...
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Obama Pushes for $50 Billion for Automakers, Oversight Czar
finalternatives.com - 11/5/2008
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finalternatives.com —
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won a decisive and
historic victory, becoming the first African-American to win the...
U.S. presidency. The Illinois senator, who just four years ago was a state senator in the Land of Lincoln, became the first Democratic ...
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Obama Wins Presidency, Hedge Funds React
ftalphaville.ft.com - 11/6/2008
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ftalphaville.ft.com —
What a curious relationship exists between newly-elected US
President Barack Obama and hedge funds. The industry has...
donated over $1m to Obama’s campaign, according to OpenSecrets.org (small change to a hedge fund manager, perhaps, but it still makes ...
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Blog Archive » Hedge funds: “Yes, we ...
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naked capitalism —
... Obama backs crackdown on tax havens Guardian. Ooh, the hedgies will howl! And aren't the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands Crown dependencies? Wonder what the Queen will do. ...
Has Obama found $50 billion in new tax revenue?
BloggingStocks —
... According to the Observer, "Obama advisors estimate the measure could raise at least $50bn (£32bn) per year in lost U.S. tax revenues." ...
Has Obama found $50 billion in new tax revenue?
BloggingStocks —
... According to the Observer, "Obama advisors estimate the measure could raise at least $50bn (£32bn) per year in lost U.S. tax revenues." ...
Ten Notes For the Current Crises
The Aleph Blog —
... 7) Maybe Obama’s tax poicy could have more bite. Close down tax havens. This is something I can get behind. I like low tax rates, but I don’t like the ability for some to lower their tax rates, and not others. Let there be a level playing field in the tax code, such that there is no advantage to moving profits offshore. ...
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optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com 3/5/2009 —
I will preface this post by emphasizing that it is NOT Barack Obama’s fault that the market has fallen so much on his watch. The American economy was grossly over-leveraged before he was even elected to the Senate in 2004.
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Obama stimulus could reach $1 trillion: report
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reuters.com 12/15/2008 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's team is considering a plan to boost the recession-hit U.S. economy that could be far larger than previous estimates and might reach $1 trillion over two years, the Wall Street Journal reported on ...
The Moral Case for Tax Havens (video)
youtube.com 10/22/2008 — This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video demonstrates that low-tax jurisdictions offer millions of people around the world a safe haven from t...
Replacing Justice Souter
reason.com 5/21/2009 — With Supreme Court Justice David Souter set to retire next month at the end of the Court's current term, President Barack Obama faces one of the most important decisions of his tenure. Reason.com asked a panel of leading legal scholars and ...
Get a Job —
The Big Money 11/6/2008
So Obama made it brilliantly through the campaign; the same cannot be said for the U.S. economy. Obama's " Rescue Plan for the Middle Class ," released amid financial turmoil in mid-October, offers a glimpse of the policies an Obama administration ...
Hey, Barack: Hire Me! —
The Big Money 11/7/2008
(This is a slightly edited transcript of a Cramer Mad Money monologue delivered Nov. 5.)
We need a plan to fix this economy. My e-mail inbox indicates overwhelmingly that you all want a plan to fix the economy, and, bizarrely, you trust an often ...
Spreading the Health —
The Big Money 11/7/2008
Barack Obama's campaign was built on shattering conventions on race in American politics, so it's fitting that his presidency may smash another cliché: that when it comes to health care, Republicans are sympathetic to the concerns of insurance ...
You Are Now Friends With Barack Obama —
The Big Money 11/11/2008
Barack Obama ran the most technologically sophisticated presidential campaign in history. In addition to siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars from his online fans, Obama's team recognized the Internet's capacity to attract and organize ...
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