pajamasmedia.com - 3/14/2009
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GOING JOHN GALT at a corporate level: “The tidy towns and mountain vistas of Switzerland are an unlikely setting for an oil boom. Yet a wave of energy companies has in the last few months announced plans to move to Switzerland — mainly for its appeal as a low-tax corporate domicile ...
reuters.com - 3/12/2009
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reuters.com —
* Companies seek Swiss domiciles despite tax row
* U.S. political climate may be helping * Appeal
as corporate location may outlast offshore dispute By Sam Cage ZUG, Switzerland, March 12 (Reuters) - The tidy towns and mountain vistas of Switzerland ...
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RPT-FEATURE-Corporate oil booms in low-tax Switzerland
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bloomberg.com - 3/13/2009
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bloomberg.com —
March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria
said they will soften rules on banking secrecy, responding
to growing international pressure to root out tax dodgers. Switzerland, where banking secrecy has been enshrined in law for 75 ...
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Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria Loosen Secrecy Rules ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 3/10/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Ezra Klein writes that Republicans are drawing the
lines of opposition to the progressive health care agenda
in pretty narrow terms : Does that matter? It’s hard to say. Rhetorically, the GOP has staked out a very narrow corner of ...
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Is Switzerland a Model of Health Care Compromise?
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alicublog —
... but this is remarkable: They are deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming train, but sneer that the train does not exist. They are stuffed animals crammed with the excelsior of worn-out bromides, mulched second-hand sociology, and the sawdust of a failed ideology.A bromide-stuffed, sneering deer obliterated by the unsubsidized Amtrak of the People! I hope this scene is in the movie. The Perfesser's pages are increasingly given over to such Galt-talk, and to coverage of mostly miniscule Tea Parties, ...
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