Allan Sloan finds some of this year’s corporate comings and goings in the Fortune 500 list especially interesting.
About This Column
Sloan’s Newsweek column appears in The Washington Post on Tuesdays. He focuses on corporate issues that include how deals are structured and excesses by corporations.
Romney Tax Plan Adds $600 Billion to Deficit, Analysis Says
In a year of economic chaos and complexity, three columns that had both
Same old song: Big firms refuse to clear up tax issue
Procter & Gamble and the art of tax avoidance
Deals: Allan Sloan on S&P downgrade of U.S. debt
Even when he’s wrong, Buffett gets it right
Shareholder money finances Murdoch family deals
Time to consider mass mortgage refinancings
Payroll tax cuts endanger ‘moral legitimacy’ of Social Security
Legg Mason’s Miller shows the risks in a mutual fund’s hot hand
‘Supercommittee’ failure is something we could have averted
Behind the numbers of the bailout’s profit for U.S. taxpayers
Wall Street living wills doomed to fail
Why New Jersey’s Christie and New York’s Cuomo are singing similar tunes
Stocks may be pricey, but are they overvalued?
Old GMAC shareholders are winners after bailout
Facebook’s IPO: A study in arrogance
Obama budget calls for $1.4 trillion in fresh revenue
Treasury, IRS propose easier tax rules for overseas banks
Time to close the carried-interest loophole
Time may be right for more risky dividend-paying stocks
Where should you put your money? These days, that’s a tough one.
A twist in Fed’s Operation Twist: Costlier pension obligations
Fixating on things that don’t matter
A solution for our corporate tax debate
Private or public, it’s still the health-care bureaucracy
This time, the economic crisis is no one’s fault but the government’s
It was a low-down, no-good godawful bailout. But it paid.
Don’t buy into Wall Street’s ‘summer rally’ promos
Tips for investing in
ominous financial times
Cash flow is only true measure of Social Security
Medicare debate reminds us: Empowering people is great, but protect them first
The truth about GE’s tax bill
How a big company like GE handles its taxes
Will public appreciate gentle Ben and the friendly Fed?
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