Will New Required Reporting of $3 Trillion of Debt Crimp Big Cos, Private Equity?
A geeky accounting change in liability reporting may have real world consequences.
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Is Trump Going to Punt on H-1B Visa Reform?
The lack of updates from the Trump Administration about H-1B reform suggests it will miss a key window of opportunity.
Read more...Reader Query: Do You Feel Facebook Ads Target You Accurately?
Facebook advertising metrics and you!
Read more...Deepening EU Banking Crisis Meets Euro-TARP and Taxpayers
As the banking crisis in Europe intensifies, TARP-like ideas are on the table. How realistic are they?
Read more...4 Charts on Wall Street’s Outsized Pay
Wall Street denizens whinge about embarrassingly rich pay packages.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Nine: The 1990s Koch Funded Propaganda Program That is Uber’s True Origin Story
The perception that Uber is a competitive success comes from a recycled propaganda campaign.
Read more...Flint Official Escapes Imprisonment, Only Has to Write Apology Letter
The optics around a Flint water plea deal are not good.
Read more...Trump Fires Preet Bharara and 45 Other US Attorneys, Media Hysteria Ensues
Bharara dismissal: The media spins what was treated as SOP in other new administrations into a harbinger of the decline of the Republic.
Read more...The OECD Penalizes Developing Countries for Trying to Tackle Tax Avoidance
How the OECD stacks the deck in favor of tax-dodging multinationals.
Read more...Definition of Madness: Spain Needs Bigger Banks, Apparently
Spain’s pending bank mergers look like an exercise in hope over experience.
Read more...America’s Hidden Water Affordability Crisis
Why water is a stealth crisis in places like Seattle and Atlanta and will become an economic and social problem for more cities soon.
Read more...EU Dings Yet Another Brexit Fantasy: “Equivalence” Deal for the City
Yet another scheme, equivalence, by which the City hope to have its Brexit cake and eat it too, looks to be a non-starter.
Read more...India’s “Bold Experiment With Cash”: Debunking Myths
India radical demonetization policy: Is this a decisive action against the black economy or an ill-considered, damagingly arbitrary act?
Read more...Fourth Federal District Court Looks Likely to Uphold Fiduciary Rule
The Department of Labor is likely to delay implementation of the fiduciary rule beyond the original April 10 compliance deadline.
Read more...EPA Failures Predate Trump: Evidence Emerges of Tropical Parasites in Rural America
EPA and other regulatory failures that predate the Trump administration have left some poor rural communities swimming in sewage.
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