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Corporate Tax Rate Nonsense and Justified Outrage

My ‘robotic’ news filters have identified a huge number of articles arguing for lowering corporate tax rates, ostensibly to grow the economy and create jobs. Let me first say I am not opposed to...

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New Report: Corporate Tax Dodging in the Fifty States, 2008-2010

Previously I have written a few articles on corporate tax rates: Corporate Tax Rate Nonsense and Justified Outrage Study: 78 of 280 Corporations Paid a Tax Rate of Zero or Less Unemployment, Corporate...

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Top 1% Captured 93% of the Income Gains in the First Year of Recovery

One of the world’s foremost income inequality researchers, Emmanuel Saez, has found the top 1 percent captured 93% of the income gains in the first full year of recovery, 2010! The above table depicts...

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How about Some Good News for the Economy?

Despite the bad news associated with the economy, especially for people who remain unemployed, there is some good news to celebrate.

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Corporate Profits Continue to Rise

Despite poor employment reports, there is good news as corporate profits continue to increase, now exceeding the pre-recession record. Source: FRED graph.

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Effect of the Stimulus Program: 21 Economic Metrics

Michael Norman, JTF chief economist, provides a number of metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the stimulus program (aka American Recovery Act). Each graph below has a horizontal axis ranging from...

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Upbeat Report on the Economy

For an upbeat report on the economy via the Daily Beast: “The economic news and data have turned distinctly upbeat. With unemployment down, consumer confidence up, and personal debt back to normal...

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Corporate After-Tax Profits Since 1999 Have Increased from $500 Billion to...

Via MercuryNews: “Here’s some good news: Corporate after-tax profits since 1999 have increased from $500 billion to about $1.8 trillion — almost four times more money. I didn’t make that up. It’s...

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The Decline of the Middle Class in One Paragraph

The Washington Post provides a succinct summary of the decline of the middle class. It used to be that when the U.S. economy grew, workers up and down the economic ladder saw their incomes increase,...

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Top US Corporations Continue to Profit Through Offshore Tax Havens

Via U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget The report shows for the first time how more than 50 percent of the companies represented by the Business Roundtable are collectively holding more than $1...

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