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Elon Musk Is Helping His Billionaire Friends in the Financial Industry
Uncover the connections between Elon Musk and his billionaire friends. Explore their collaborations, investments, and shared interests.
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New York Times Headlines Article “Public Tired of ‘Neo-Liberal’ Policies Designed to Make Rich Richer”
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Should Jamie Dimon Get a Government Salary?
While government tax and transfer policy to reduce inequality is desirable, it is best not to structure the market to create so much inequality in the first place.
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Imagine a World Where CEOs Get Paid $3 Million a Year
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CEPR Spotlight: Private Equity
Your donation to CEPR will help us continue to speak out against the bad actors and to hold powerful PE firms accountable.
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Crypto Meltdown is a Great Time to Eliminate Waste in Bloated Financial Sector
If our politicians actually had any interest in economic efficiency, they would be engaged in an all out push to downsize the financial industry and free up hundreds of billions of dollars for productive uses.
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Inflation Reduction Act May Transform the Corporate Income Tax
It makes more sense to tax the returns to shareholders that we can see than to tax corporate profits that corporate accountants calculate for us.
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Albertsons and Kroger Merger a Win for Private Equity and Loss for Workers
Regulators must halt payment of this special dividend both because its payment will unfairly enrich its former PE owners and because payment of the dividend will set Albertsons up for failure and increase the probability that the merger with Kroger will b
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How to Decimate the Corporate Tax-Avoidance Industry
Insofar as companies spend large amounts of money trying to avoid paying taxes, the goal of the corporate income tax is undermined.
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If We Tax Share Buybacks, Can We Also Tax Stock Returns?
The taxation of share buybacks in the Inflation Reduction Act shows that we do not have to make profit the basis for the corporate income tax.
