When AT&T recently awarded a $14 billion contract to Ericcson, removing Nokia as a key 5G vendor, most concluded the contract was granted not due to technical prowess but rather for purely financial reasons. Before proceeding, let's ask a simple background theoretical question. Is $25 million in annual tax revenues for the government of Finland worth … Continue reading Is Finnish Gov Policy Harming Nokia?
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By Luke Harding and Jon Swaine - February 11, 2019 Questions have been raised about the US tax affairs of the wife of Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, after records suggested she may have failed to declare her true income to US regulators and not disclosed foreign bank accounts. Tatiana Navka, a former Olympic ice dancing champion, also … Continue reading The Guardian – Revealed: Wife of Putin’s Spokesman Faces Questions over US Tax Affairs
February 11, 2019 By Luke Harding and Jon Swaine In January the Guardian asked me to review a set of tax facts regarding a prominent couple, not telling me who it was. Later in February I learned that the story involved former Olympic ice dancing champion Tatiana Navka, who is married to Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir … Continue reading The Guardian – Wife of Putin’s spokesman faces questions over US tax affairs
By Jon Swaine - November 7, 2017 Leaked documents and newly obtained public filings show how the billionaire Mercer family built a $60m war chest for conservative causes inside their family foundations by using an offshore investment vehicle to avoid US tax. The offshore vehicle was part of a network of companies in the Atlantic … Continue reading The Guardian – Offshore cash helped fund Steve Bannon’s attacks on Hillary Clinton
By Jon Swaine November 7, 2017 Read full Guardian story here
Senator McConnell's Dilemma: To Serve Patients or Investors? When evaluating health care investments it is important to analyze the structure of leading drug and medical equipment companies. A close look indeed reveals a derivative driven system in which private equity and hedge funds increase demand for drug payments by purchasing the rights … Continue reading Is Patient Health Being Mortgaged via Derivatives as Homes Were During the Financial Crisis?
By Joseph Tanfani and Evan Halper - October 6, 2016 When Republican senators investigated a little-known San Francisco nonprofit steering as much as $50 million a year to climate change activists, the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News pounced on the report. Breitbart branded the organization, the Sea Change Foundation, as a vehicle for “rich liberals who are secretly … Continue reading Los Angeles Times – They Teamed Up to Conquer Wall Street. Now, One is Bankrolling Clinton and the Other Trump
by, Joseph Tanfani and Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times “When it comes to money, they’re all on the same page,” said Bill Parish, an Oregon investment advisor who blogs about tax policy. Read full story here: Renaissance Technologies execs team up to conquer Wall Street
by Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times Bill Parish, a registered investment adviser at Parish & Company in Portland, Ore., is a big fan of Intel and owns its shares for his clients. In an interview, he characterized Intel’s retirement plan as “great” but said it would be even better if it jettisoned the hedge … Continue reading Intel Lawsuit Questions Place of Hedge Funds in Retirement Plans
By Gretchen Morgenson - November 20, 2015 "We push the boundaries." That's how Intel Corporation, the respect Silicon Valley computing giant, describes its role as an innovator and creator of value for shareholders, customers and society. The case against Intel has a different twist. At its heart is this question: Should hedge funds, private equity … Continue reading The New York Times – Intel Lawsuit Questions Place of Hedge Funds in Retirement Plans