Why Trump Is So Clumsy About Fighting ‘Free Trade’
According to media, President Trump announced last week that he plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on imported steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum. …
Stock Buybacks Hurt Workers and the Economy
Workers, innovation, and productivity all suffer when corporations spend their new U.S. tax breaks on stock buybacks. …
SEC Stymies Plans to Offer Bitcoin Funds Anytime
Just last week, the SEC confounded these expectations, by asking sponsors to withdraw proposals to offer ETFs based on bitcoin futures. …
Shareholder Proposals Target Climate Change Risk
Actual voting data seems to confirm the study; many shareholders are coming off the sidelines on environmental and social shareholder proposals. …
Artificial Intelligence and the Stability of Markets
Artificial intelligence (AI) is useful for optimally controlling an existing system, one with clearly understood risks. It excels at pattern matching and control mechanisms. …
More Signs of Private Equity Market Frenzy: Firms Selling Stakes
The article also touted infrastructure as a new growth area. But as we’ve written, infrastructure deals are getting a deserved bad name in the US. …
Silicon Valley Rejects Shareholder Value Theory
These were not top-tier b-school alum; they were writers, computer programmers, online forum moderators and ended up owing a fortune. …
Mutual Funds Cut Uber Valuation by as Much as 15%
Since then, the reports from the Uber side as to where SoftBank stands have kept shifting, and its allies can’t keep their story straight. …
Private Equity Firms Sued Over Retailer Bankruptcies
Gymboree’s June bankruptcy filing occurred days after it couldn’t make a semiannual interest payment on debt dating back to Bain Capital’s $1.8 billion 2010 buyout. …
The Retirement Wealth Inequality Machine
Thus, how such programs are set up and administered is likely to merely expand financial asset management fees while collecting taxes and penalties to boost the treasury. …
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