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'For all practical purposes the markets are closed right now' | 29 comments (29 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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What are your comments on the US manufacturing acceleration expected by the markets right now?
Have you read of that new study on corporate taxes across the world, IIRC by Deloiette, which show that there is no simple correlation between low taxes and high investment flows?

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Fri Jul 27th, 2007 at 03:08:55 AM EST

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No idea
tax level have little impact on ivestment levels in reality, but that does not prevent those that hold capital to pretend that it does, and to threaten to move out, and it does not prevent politicians from listening to these assertions. (And of course it does not prevent the media from parrotting it on and on).

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Fri Jul 27th, 2007 at 10:10:51 AM EST
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