A recent article published on Yahoo Finance was titled “Warren Buffett Says You Wouldn’t Owe A ‘Dime’ In Federal Taxes If 800 Companies Paid The IRS Like Berkshire — And That Includes Social Security Too.” This article offered a favorable presentation of Warren Buffett’s remarks regarding corporate taxation and taxation in general.
In 2006, Michael Nifong had been a year in his job as Durham County District Attorney, appointed by Democratic Gov. Mike Easley of North Carolina with the promise he would not run for that position in the next election. However, after Nifong and his wife saw he could earn an extra $15,000 a year on his pension if he served four more years as a D.A., he decided to run for office in the upcoming Democratic primary in April 2006.
In the nearly 10 days since the State Department directed non-emergency government employees to leave Iraq amid the war with Iran, the U.S. has struggled to remove all personnel.
This month is the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most important and prolific authors of the Austrian School. This author wrote about practically every possible topic: economics, history, philosophy, etc.
I first heard of Roger Garrison from Murray Rothbard. At a social gathering in 1973 of Rothbard and a few younger Austrian scholars and grad students in the New York City area, Rothbard excitedly recounted to the group the contents of a brilliant term paper he had just read involving a graphical comparison of Austrian and Keynesian macroeconomics. The paper was titled “Austrian Macroeconomics: A Diagrammatical Exposition” and its author was Roger Garrison, then an MA student. A week or two later, I received a copy of the paper in the mail.
As Mark Thornton has detailed in his brilliant book, The Skyscraper Curse, Austrian School economists’ unique theory of the business cycle has given them a distinct advantage in foreseeing oncoming economic crises: from Ludwig von Mises’s 1920s predictions of looming bank failures, to Thornton’s own 2004 warnings of the hous
After 43 air strikes this year, AFRICOM is still on track to break its annual record for total US airstrikes in Somalia, which it set at 124 strikes last year.
IEA members are advanced economies in Europe, North America and Northeast Asia. Japan said earlier it will release oil stockpiles as early as next week.
President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern. This was clearly wishful thinking.
