Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether – NYTimes.com – As an extension of the discussion earlier this week about corporations and taxes. Looking at GE in particular shows areas where gameplaying with tax laws (or controlling what laws are actually on the books) lead to benefits to the company’s shareholders, but not to the nation (except for yacht manufacturers). I’m not against corporate profits, but I also don’t see them as the highest good.
- Triangle Fire: A Half-Hour of Horror – NYTimes.com
- It Could Happen Here – NYTimes.com – Well, thank goodness we avoided such a nanny-state meddling-government business-unfriendly regulation.
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