Leaders seeking global finance reforms (The New Zealand Herald)
Centre-left leaders from around the world - including New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark - have called for urgent reform of global financial institutions to prevent a recurrence of the credit crisis.
5 Tax Breaks That Might Save You Money
With the days before we should all have filed our income taxes dwindling away, I am about to undertake something rather ambitious: discuss some tax breaks and exemptions. The reason I say ambitious is because the income tax code is a whopping 1.3 million words long, and that makes it twice as long as Tolstoy s massive tome War & Peace (just a bit of interesting trivia I thought I d share). Now there are literally thousands of tax breaks, so I am going to discuss a few breaks that are th
Golden Parachutes For CEOS, The Toilet For Finance Workers
Golden Parachutes For CEOS, The Toilet For Finance Workers Written by JollyRoger on April 2, 2008 12:37 am - We ve seen story after story of the top execs of teetering financial firms who rewarded themselves handsomely for their shit decisions that brought us the foreclosure crisis we re in today. We ll examine that further in just a second. But first, a word from Jolly Roger about Gopper politicians. I don t want to digress too far from the theme of this post, but I d like to talk for a