Salmon: Why Capital Gains Should Be Taxed as Income NEW YORK (Reuters Blogs) -- The recent Munk debate featured one of those strange-bedfellow moments, when Paul Krugman agreed with Art Laffer that the tax rate on capital gains should be the same as the tax rate on income. (In fact, Laffer went one step further than that, saying that even unrealized capital gains should be taxed at the same rate.) Normalizing the capital-gains tax rate so that it ...
June 11, 2013 - TheStreet.com
It's Been 50 Years Since the Equal Pay Act President Barack Obama delivers remarks commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, in the East Room of the White House, June 10, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) It's been 50 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, but its goals today stand unrealized. In 2013, full-time working women still make less than men on average. This morning, President ...
June 10, 2013 - The White House
Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington Post The vast crowd did not react as Clinton said: "The status quo is unsustainable for all sides. It promises only more violence and unrealized aspirations. Staying on this course means continuing a conflict that carries tragic human costs."
Lloyd Blankfein in WELT ONLINE Lakshmi Mittal has reshaped a global industry and, in the process, has engineered new modes of production, identified unrealized value and sparked remarkable growth,said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Goldman...
Martin J. Sullivan in USA Today While we anticipated a difficult trading environment, the severity of the unrealized valuation losses and decline in value of our investments were beyond our expectations,Martin Sullivan, AIG's president and chief executive, said in a statement.