Offshore tax havens are a hot topic these days – due in no small part to the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s …
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Apple’s Tax Avoidance: Evil Scheming, Good Business, or Both?
The New York Times is out with the latest installment of its iEconomy series, which focuses on Apple, the world’s most profitable company. The article details the elaborate — and legal — ways that Apple, and other tech …
A New Chinese Export — Jobs
Bucking the decades-old wave of offshoring of manufacturing jobs to China, other parts of Asia and Mexico, GE said it would move jobs back from these countries to the United States, where it will build water heaters.
President Obama Goes Backward on Energy
Crossposted from TIME’s Ecocentric blog:
Last March, President Barack Obama gave a speech on energy security at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. In it, Obama offered what might be called a “grand compromise” on energy—in exchange for expanded offshore drilling, including in previously untouched areas like north Alaska and …
