By J.G. Collins NEW YORK (June 17, 2014) – House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s stunning loss in the Virginia 7th Congressional District Republican primary should be less surprising than it was. Coming on the heels of Thad Cochran’s initial primary …

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By J.G. Collins Posted: May 29, 2013, 06:30 With all due respect to Senators Levin, McCain, and the others on the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations, Apple, Inc., is, indeed, avoiding taxes, albeit legally.  What the senators seem to overlook …

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A Tea Party Protester

By J.G. Collins – New York  May 12, 2013 Anytime grievous organizational wrongdoing is discovered, it must be addressed immediately, forthrightly, and completely by the organization’s principal leader, speaking with one voice, until every aspect of the wrongdoing is discovered, …

For the C-Suite, the IRS “Tea Party” Scandal is a Lesson in Bad PR Gone Worse Read more »

If there were awards for creating market instability, the ECB/IMF plan to impose a “tax” on Cypriot depositors – effectively renouncing depositors’ insurance guarantees – would rank second only to the US Treasury decision to let Lehman Brothers go bankrupt, …

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                                         Most business people who sell overseas and tourists who have traveled to Europe and Asia are at least vaguely familiar …

“Heads We Win; Tails You Lose”: How Foreign VAT Undercuts American Companies Overseas (and Benefits Foreign Companies Here.) Read more »