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Financialization
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Beware of Private Equity Gobbling Up Life Insurance and Annuity Companies
This paper is an examination of the size of retirement savings in the US; a brief review of earlier, largely unsuccessful attempts by PE firms to gain access to the savings of individuals; and, a discussion of PE’s foray into life insurance and annuities
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
If This is a Wage-Price Spiral, Why Are Profits Soaring?
It hardly seems as though businesses are being forced by costs to push up prices. It instead looks like they are taking advantage of presumably temporary shortages to increase their profit margins.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Financial Transactions Taxes: The Perfect Way to Pay for Biden’s Infrastructure Package
The bottom line is that Biden’s investment plan addresses longstanding needs in the country … A financial transactions tax is a great place to look for some of the offset.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Tax Stock Returns: If Biden Really Wants to Close Corporate Income Tax Loopholes
Taxing stock returns is better than taxing corporate profits for the simple reason that it is completely transparent.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Bartenders and Pension Fund Investment Advisers
Investment advisers are in the same relationship to the pension fund as the bartender is to the person worried about their drinking problem. The advisers are making money off the fund.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Getting Lazy in Discussing Winning in the Stock Market
It is not necessarily bad to invest in a stock index, but the returns may not be quite what some people would expect.
Press Release
Minimal Impact on Pension Funds from Wall Street Levy, Study Finds
Report
Financial Transactions Taxes: A Wall Street Levy that Won’t Affect Pension Funds
This paper examines two issues related to pension funds and Financial Transactions Taxes.
Report
Financial Transactions Taxes Around the World
Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) – A tax on buying and selling a stock, bond, or other financial contract like options and derivatives (Klien 2020).
