U.S. Multinationals Hiring At Much Faster Rate Overseas: Report
U.S. multinationals are hiring. They're just doing a lot of it overseas these days. Multinational firms based in the United States expanded their w...
U.S. multinationals are hiring. They're just doing a lot of it overseas these days. Multinational firms based in the United States expanded their w...
Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012
* Government has stepped up its enforcement of FCPA * Corporations say fear over liability has impacted M&A * Seek g...
Robert Pozen | Posted 04.21.2012
If properly designed, the president's minimum tax could substantially improve the current system of taxing foreign profits of U.S. multinational corporations -- by both raising revenues and encouraging domestic investments.
Reuters | Posted 04.11.2012
* Top U.S. corporate tax rate is 35 percent * Obama seen calling for lower rate, in line with peers * Opening salvo in c...
Bill Quigley | Posted 04.07.2012
The legal fiction of corporate personhood and the constitutional rights taken by corporations must cease.
Bob Burnett | Posted 02.15.2012
For 80 years, Americans have feared robots, worrying they might one day rule the world. In 2011 we realized our real enemies are not robots, but multinational corporations, who have declared war on democracy.
Posted 12.15.2011
Multinational corporations likely have the means to invest the offshore profits in the U.S. without a tax holiday that they're billing as a job creato...
The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 12.05.2011
It's no secret that many multinationals have become particularly adept at exploiting tax loopholes. Nor is it a surprising that the U.S. federal defic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.22.2011
In the last decade, U.S.-based multinational companies have been on a hiring spree, adding over 2 million new jobs. They're just not adding them in th...
Posted 11.21.2011
General Electric Co (GE.N) is opening its first offices in Iraq, in the cities of Baghdad, Basra and Arbil, part of the largest U.S. conglomerate'...
Posted 12.31.2011
Any economic benefit that might result from a U.S. tax holiday for overseas corporate profits could be muted, or even reversed, if it strengthened...
AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 11.06.2011
MEXICO CITY — For 30 years, Estela Moran has sold almost every edible part of a cow at her meat stand in a neighborhood market. The sale of trip...
Bob Burnett | Posted 11.02.2011
Joe Hill was a labor activist in the early 1900's -- the sort you used to hear more about in American popular culture. This Labor Day, I wonder what he would make of the demise of unions and the struggles of American workers.
Bob Burnett | Posted 10.19.2011
The global economy is splintering. U.S. voters hate all politicians and there's political unrest throughout the world. The root cause of this turmoil is the failure of the dominant economic paradigm -- global corporate capitalism.
Ellen Snortland | Posted 10.08.2011
Edinburgh, U.K. -- Eye-crossing, mind-boggling numbers of art-loving, hard-drinking people and arts events pack the Edinburgh Fringe Festival every Au...
HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 09.20.2011
A month after a prominent human rights group accused major American brands of purchasing clothing from a factory in Jordan that systematically abuses ...
Laura Mola | Posted 06.18.2011
Depression, people on the streets, begging, homelessness, the end of the American Dream -- sounds like today. Well, today in the new Ayn Rand movie At...
The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011
A group of multinational corporations is facing off against the Treasury Department over a massive tax holiday that the companies say could spur the e...
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011
The trajectory of China's breakneck economic growth over the past three decades is a case study in how globalization allows cutting-edge technology to exist alongside primitive labor conditions.
Robert E. Scott | Posted 05.25.2011
It's time to end unfair trade practices, and to do that the President needs a new crop of advisors who care more about American job creation than outsourcing and MNC profits.
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday blocked tax legislation that would have punished U.S. firms that export jobs. But the political symbolism of ...
Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011
Passing the Schumer-Graham bill in the Senate and Ryan-Murphy bill in the House would be two small steps in a larger effort to stop China's mercantilism and balance America's current account.
Ralph Gomory | Posted 05.25.2011
We do not live in a world of textbook free trade. We live in a world where our trading partner China has chosen mercantilism and is using the full powers of its government to advance its industries in ways that destroy ours.
Ralph Gomory | Posted 05.25.2011
The future of our country is endangered by massive trade deficits that are destroying industries and destroying jobs. Yet balancing trade is not on our government's agenda.
Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011
"... And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy or ...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.20.2012