Multinational Corporations

U.S. Multinationals Hiring At Much Faster Rate Overseas: Report

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Workforce, General Electric, Walmart, Multinational Corporations, Ikea, Overseas Hiring, Unemployment, Microsoft, Hiring, Globalization, Caterpillar, Consumer Spending, Race to the Bottom, Video, Business News

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...

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Corporations To Government: What Exactly Is Considered Bribing A Foreign Official?

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Video, Multinational Corporations, Corporations Bribery, Corporations, Reuters, Bribing Foreign Officials, Business News, Bribery, Bribery Scandals, Bribery Rules, Business News

* Government has stepped up its enforcement of FCPA * Corporations say fear over liability has impacted M&A * Seek g...

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Obama's Proposed Minimum Tax on Foreign Earnings

Robert Pozen | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Repatriation, Foreign Source Income, Corporate Tax Reform, Multinational Corporations, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Corporate Taxes, Politics News

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.

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Obama To Call For Lower Corporate Tax Rate

Reuters | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Insourcing, Video, Multinational Corporations, Corporations, Insourcing American Jobs, Corporate Tax, Reuters, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Corporate Taxes, Lower Corporate Taxes, Barack Obama, Business News

* Top U.S. corporate tax rate is 35 percent * Obama seen calling for lower rate, in line with peers * Opening salvo in c...

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Occupy Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power

Bill Quigley | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Common Cause, Multinational Corporations, Constitutional Amendment, MoveOn.Org, Corporations, Occupy Wall Street, Mitt Romney, Codepink, Corporate Personhood, People for the American Way, Citizens United, Politics News

The legal fiction of corporate personhood and the constitutional rights taken by corporations must cease.

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2011: The Year Corporations Attacked Democracy

Bob Burnett | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Multinationals, Multinational Corporations, Conservatives, Ronald Reagan, Wall Street, Corporations, The Matrix, Occupy Wall Street, Citizens United, Republicans, Politics News

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.

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Multinationals Holding Nearly Half Of Untaxed Profits In The U.S.

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Repatriation, Taxes, Video, Multinational Corporations, Tax Policy, u.s. Multinational Corporations, Tax Cuts, Business News, Tax Holiday, Repatriation Tax Holiday, Business News

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...

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Loopholes, Corporate Tax Dodging Costing Developing Countries Billions: Report

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Developing Nations, Multinational Corporations Tax Dodging, Video, Multinational Corporations, Multinational Corporations Taxes, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Taxes, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Business News

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...

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While U.S.-Based Corporations Went On Hiring Spree Abroad, They Cut Jobs At Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Multinationals, Foreign Jobs, u.s. Jobs, General Electric, Multinational Corporations, Video, Unemployment, Unemployment Crisis, Hiring, Jobs, 2000s, Business News

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...

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Huge Multinational Corporation To Expand To Iraq

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Business News, General Electric, Video, Business in Iraq, Multinational Corporations, Ge Iraq Office, Iraq, Middle East, General Electric Co, Business News

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'...

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Corporate Tax Holiday For Overseas Profits May Hurt Exports

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Repatriation, Video, Multinational Corporations, Tax Holiday, Corporate Overseas Profits, Business News, Overseas Profits, Repatriation Tax Holiday, Tax Holiday US Exports, Business News

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...

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Mexico City's Markets Languish

AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Walmart, Multinational Corporations, Markets, Corporations, Mexico City, Farmers Markets, Mexico City Markets, Mexico, Cultura, World News

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...

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Labor Day: Dreaming of Joe Hill

Bob Burnett | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Multinational Corporations, Labor, Ronald Reagan, Conservatives, Afl-Cio, Organized Labor, Joe Hill, Labor Unions, Republicans, Politics News

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.

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Why Did Capitalism Fail?

Bob Burnett | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Multinational Corporations, JP Morgan, Free Market Capitalism, Corporations, Exxon Mobil, Third World America, Corporate Greed, Capitalism, Business News

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.

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"Commencement": Changing the World One Perverted CEO At A Time

Ellen Snortland | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Now That She's Gone, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Multinational Corporations, Marlborough School, Revenge Fantasy, Theater Review, Edinburgh Fringe, Feminism, Theatrem, Entertainment News

Edinburgh, U.K. -- Eye-crossing, mind-boggling numbers of art-loving, hard-drinking people and arts events pack the Edinburgh Fringe Festival every Au...

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Corporate Silence: Brands Profess Ignorance Of Alleged Worker Abuses at Overseas Factories

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Apparel Factories, Free Trade Agreements, Multinational Corporations, Labor, Human Rights, Labor Rights, Factories, Fashion/Apparel, Human Rights Abuses, Sweatshops, Business News

A month after a prominent human rights group accused major American brands of purchasing clothing from a factory in Jordan that systematically abuses ...

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Atlas Shrugged? Pertinent Today?

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...

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Big Businesses Ask For A Tax Holiday To Bring $1 Trillion Home

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Treasury Department, Multinational Corporations, Apple, David Chavern, Microsoft, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tax Holiday, Pfizer, Michael Mundaca, WIN America, Repatriation Tax Holiday, Business News

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...

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Gadget Factories Charge Up China's Labor Activism

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multinational Corporations, Labor, Apple Ipad, Apple, Foxconn, Free Trade, Globalization, Chinese, Technology, Unions, China, Electronics, Sweatshops, World News

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.

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Exports and Jobs: Less Than Half the Story

Robert E. Scott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Currency Manipulation, Multinational Corporations, Small Business, Trade, President Obama, Business News, Jobs, China Currency, State of the Union, China, Business News

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.

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Bill To Tax Firms That Offshore Jobs Fails

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Offshoring Tax, Taxes, Offshoring, Outsourcing Tax, Senate, Multinational Corporations, Chuck Grassley, November Election, Dick Durbin, Jobs, Harry Reid, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday blocked tax legislation that would have punished U.S. firms that export jobs. But the political symbolism of ...

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Appeasing China on Currency Will Doom Our Economy

Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Countervailing Duties, Trade Policy, Currency Manipulation, Multinational Corporations, Protectionism, China, Politics News

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.

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Jobs, Trade, and Mercantilism - Part II - Dealing With Reality

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.

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Jobs, Trade, and Mercantilism - Part I - Facing Reality

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.

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Real India: At Koshy's Cafe, The Talk of Bangalore (AUDIO)

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 ...

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