Jan D WeirThe New 15% Global Minimum Tax: Solution or Subterfuge“U.S. multinational companies are avoiding $120 billion by artificially shifting profits to Bermuda and similar places.”3 min read·1 day ago--1--1
Jan D WeirWhat’s in It for the Tax Havens“The offshore industry is a major threat for our democratic institutions and our basic social contract.”3 min read·Apr 16, 2024--2--2
Jan D WeirHow the Share Buyback Became Popular: A Reform That Backfired“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation”. -Howard Scott5 min read·Apr 2, 2024--2--2
Jan D WeirStopping the Use of the Corporation for the Upward Transfer of Wealth“Bosses should earn at most 20 times the pay of their underlings.”7 min read·Mar 26, 2024----
Jan D WeirHow Oligarchy Replaced Democracy in America“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” -Louis…3 min read·Mar 19, 2024--7--7
Jan D WeirThe Great Failure of Neoliberalism“Whoever designed the Obama administration’s bank rescue plan is either in the pocket of the banks or they’re incompetent.”5 min read·Mar 12, 2024--2--2
Jan D WeirElitist Values Disguised as Scholarship That Are Dividing America“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money…6 min read·Mar 5, 2024--3--3
Jan D WeirEconomists’ Ethics: Playing for Pay“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treatises — if I can write its economics textbooks,”5 min read·Feb 27, 2024--2--2
Jan D WeirEconomists Made Astrologers Look Good Again: They Failed to Predict the Great Recession“How could economists be so wrong, so often, and so clearly at the expense of the working people in the United States, yet still ultimately…6 min read·Feb 21, 2024--5--5
Jan D WeirWho Did it in 2008?BILL MOYERS: Yeah. Are you saying that Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, and others in the administration, with the banks…7 min read·Feb 14, 2024--4--4
