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The top of today’s reading list has the seven craziest things about Apple tax avoidance …….. and the last article is about lobbyists drafting banking bills for Congress.
- The seven craziest findings in the US investigation of Apple’s tax avoidance practices (Tim Fernholz, Quartz) Hat tip to The Big Picture. See how Apple “cooks the tax books” legally. See also GEI News.
- The Uprising of the Second Tier in a Time of Late Capitalism (David Dayen, Naked Capitalism)
- Five lessons Europe can learn from Abenomics (Matthew Lynn, MarketWatch)
- A Keynesian Victory, but Austerity Stands Firm (Eduardo Porter, The New York Times)
- Greek Success Story: The latest Orwellian Turn of the Greek Crisis (Yanis Varoufakis) Hat tip to Naked Capitalism.
- Special Report: The deeper agenda behind “Abenomics” (Linda Sieg, Yuko Yoshikawa and Tetsushi Kajimoto, Reuters)
- Vitamins That Cost Pennies a Day Seen Delaying Dementia (Andrea Gerlin, Bloomberg)
- Russia to urgently evacuate Arctic post as ice melts (The Times of India) Hat tip to Sanjeev Kulkarni.
- The humble hero (The Economist) GEI Analysis (Steven Hansen) follows container traffic data monthly for the U.S.
- Bank’s Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills (Eric Lipton and Ben Protess, DealBook, The New York Times) What goes on today gives new meaning to the term “self regulation”.
