High-Tax States Fight for Their Deductions
California, New York, and other high-tax states have set themselves to foil the provisions of the new tax law. They do not like that would allow their residents federal write-offs […]
Tax Reform: A Step in the Right Direction
The tax bill, for all the partisan positioning around it as well as its real faults, takes a welcome step in the right direction. It makes a highly inequitable, anti-growth, […]
Fed’s Concerns
Wall Street traders, especially during the last couple of weeks, have voiced doubts about the Fed’s intentions. On the one hand, they note how the minutes of the last Fed […]
How the Likely Tax Legislation Will Fall
As the nation awaits a final version of its new tax legislation, the House and Senate versions share enough in common to give an idea of what will likely emerge […]
Corporate Sector Comes Alive
The corporate sector has received too little attention from financial media of late. Individual firms, of course, continue to attract media interest, especially if a scandal develops, but few these […]
German Chaos
It can have surprised no one that German Chancellor Angela Merkel failed to form a coalition government. Last September’s splintered national vote all but ensured it. (See “After the German […]
Excelsior Scholarships Will Hurt More Than They Help
Amid great fanfare, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced earlier this year his State’s Excelsior Scholarship plan. It would, he and others have claimed, open educational opportunities to needy scholars […]
More on the Tax Reform Proposals
Criticism of the recent tax proposals seems to have emerged from every quarter. That is to be expected. As the party of opposition, Democrats could hardly do otherwise at this […]
Tax Reform
Tax matters have truly moved to center stage. Republicans have advanced their proposals. Though they differ from Trump’s campaign promises and from the sketch offered by the White House earlier […]
Corporate Sector Comes Alive
The corporate sector has received scant attention from financial media of late. Individual firms, of course, continue to attract media interest, especially if a scandal develops, but few these days […]
Thirty Tomorrows 