Inside the Accountants’ Playbook
Background on four strategies that American companies use to reduce their taxes.
The Moral Hazard of Money Market Fund Madness
Here we go again: Forget for a moment the IMF, and instead direct your gaze upon the MMF: Money Market Funds. These are a type of mutual...
Why Is the Chinese Economy Sputtering?
Is the Chinese Economy Sputtering for the Same Reasons as the American Economy? It was tempting to believe that China was different. With...
Early AM Reads
Some really early morning linkage before the weekend begins: • The Hindsight Fallacy – The real reason it’s so hard to...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events (6.24.11)
Succinct summation of week’s events: Positives: 1) Greek PM wins vote of confidence to continue on with hopefully enough backing to...
FRBM: Recession and Recovery in Perspective
The Minneapolis Fed has a cool tool that lets you compare a variety of different attributes over past recessions and recoveries: >...
Payroll Withholding Tax Wobbles
Lets catch up with what Matt Trivisonno is seeing over at his Withholding-Tax data crunching site, The Daily Jobs Update: Federal...