All Posts Tagged With: "taxes"

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China Will Rule the Business World While America Finds Itself Heavily in Debt

The 19th century belonged to Britain, the 20th century belonged to America and in the 21st century, China will rule the business world. Whether you like it or not, this transition is already underway…

November 18th, 2009 | Puru Saxena | 10 comments | Continued
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Naturally the Feds Want to Raise as Much Money as They Can

Now, the feds have intervened in the economy too. And, likewise, they are trapped. By pumping in trillions of dollars – not just in America, but also in Britain and China (which have both intervened even more forcefully)…

September 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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The Family Office

Our son Will and an associate from Buenos Aires are here working on a new project. They were asked to take charge of the family office. What’s a family office? Ah…glad you asked.

August 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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The Magic Formula of Economic Success

If you look at any of the great economic successes over the past two hundred years, you will usually find this combination. Likewise, most of the great failures have the converse: high (or rising) taxes, and unstable money.

August 14th, 2009 | Nathan Lewis | 16 comments | Continued
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U.S. Dollar Index Showing All Sorts of Weakness

The U.S. dollar taketh…and the U.S. dollar giveth away. That’s one way of looking at the flurry of activity in markets right now. The Aussie dollar is at a ten-month high. Oil is up 75% since January, with crude trading at $74/barrel. Copper is at a ten-month high. The S&P 500 has cracked 1,000 again.

August 4th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
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Federal Government Making Taxpayers Pay Taxes for Nothing

Now, there are many definitions of nothing, most of them referring directly to me, as in “you are nothing as a husband, father, employee, neighbor, citizen or even a pale resemblance to a normal human being,” but in this particular case I am referring to all of the federal personal income taxes paid last year, net of refunds.

June 2nd, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama: One of the Great Men of History?

There are two broad theories concerning the great men of history. One says that history is made by great men. The other says great men are made by history.

May 13th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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Most Government Services Are Disservices

Each year since the war, government budgets have gone up. Now, there are more people getting money from the government than there are taxpayers. And what do the taxpayers get for their money?

May 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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The World Needs More Richard Bransons

Not to be a Danny Downer, but arguably worse news comes out of Japan. There we learn that Japan ran its first current account deficit in 13 years-shocking news for an economy that’s driven by export growth. Exports fell a mind-boggling 46.3% from the year before.

March 10th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
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Give Liquidation a Chance!

If our hotline rings and Mr. Obama is on the phone, we know what advice we will give: Let the banks fail. Let them go broke. Let them be liquidated. Then, the surviving banks could buy up the decent assets and emerge stronger than ever…

February 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
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