Antitrust Loopholes
Ordinarily, when one big company acquires another, they have to notify the Department of Justice, which decides if the merger violates anti-monopoly regulati… Punitive Damages Deduction
When an ordinary person gets a speeding ticket, they don't get to write that off as a tax deduction at the end of the year. But when corporations are found criminall… Patent Injunctions
Patent injunctions are corporations' favorite tools for bullying and intimidating rising competitors. Ideally, when a patent-holding corporation belie… Volcker Rule: Government Debt Exception
The long-awaited Volcker Rule, a provision in the Dodd-Frank bill that aims to finally get commercial banks out of the risky trading business, was mea… Volcker Rule: Foreign Bank Exemption
One of the financial sector's loudest arguments against the Volcker Rule was that the restriction against proprietary trading reduced U.S. banks' com… Carried Interest
Some hedge fund managers and corporate CEOs manage pay to drastically lower taxes on their income by calling it something else: carried interest. Carried int… Unlimited and Anonymous Campaign Donations
Most people are familiar with why super PACs are bad, namely their complete abrogation of any limits on campaign donations. For a brief moment, there was a silve… Last-In, First-Out Accounting
Lifo is a pretty standard accounting practice that lets companies track the value of their inventory by what the last piece of product sold for, sparin… Agribusiness
During the early 20th century, a slew of federal agricultural policies were instituted to insure small farmers from changing weather and preserve a dependa… 