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Two articles today add important elements to the discussion of Romney's tax returns and his resistance to disclosure. In the New York ...

In response to Michael Tomasky’s Newsweek cover story , “Mitt Romney’s Wimp Factor,” liberal blogger Ed Kilgore argues the following: “Pr...

The International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), which is centered in the Netherlands but also has a U.S. office (contact info for ...

This MSNB story by Peter Svensson offers an interesting twist on U.S. companies' - or more specifically Apple's - international tax ...

I am scheduled to speak with Governor Mike Huckabee on his radio show today, at 12:32 EST, for up to fifteen minutes.  The show is carried n...

Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo reports on some speculation that I offered regarding the Swiss bank account, and in particular the pos...

"Young D.C. lawyer Bill Doberman, who fancies himself the James Bond of the Potomac. is a liar, a conniver, a phony, a hypocrite, and ...

According to this GAO report , last year's delay in raising the Federal debt limit, by reason of Congressional brinkmanship, "led t...

Interesting story today by Ryan Grim and Zach Carter at the Huffington Post.  They report that, in 2010, "Mitt Romney saved himself hu...

Suppose that Romney was interviewing people for an important job.  The person who got the job would get to exercise enormous independent dis...

At the Huffington Post, Zach Carter and Ryan Grimm quote the manager of a Romney blind trust as saying that  the infamous Swiss bank accoun...

I've just finished reading a brilliant, quiet, but in its way brutal and chilling novel, Thomas A. Savage's "The Power of the D...

I've been getting the question in the title to this post, and no one can really answer it without seeing the return itself.  But let...

I was bemused to see in today's Times that Obama and Romney spent some time yesterday debating a Tax Notes article on U.S. internationa...

This story about big hedge funds getting an advance peek at new information relevant to stock price movements, plus the LIBOR manipulation ...

Increasingly, everyone (including Republicans such as George Will, Matthew Dowd, and William Kristol) agrees that the reason for Romney'...

Both presidential campaigns are eager to portray themselves as champions of "small business."  So we have the Romney campaign misl...

You know the old joke, where the older man says to the younger one: "Is it for the likes of you that I lost my leg in the war?!?" ...

Tonight at 7 pm EST on CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront, there will be a feature on Romney's offshore accounts, including the tax plannin...

Making derivatives trades that pay off based on the LIBOR rate, and then getting to rig a fake LIBOR rate so you're guaranteed to win, i...