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...Ellwood must also tend to the fiscal health of the historically cash-strapped school. The KSG ran a massive $5.9 million deficit in fiscal year 2002, but Nye’s belt-tightening measures—which included the elimination of 47 staff and adjunct faculty positions—generated a more modest $84,495 surplus last year...
...fact, in this era of globalization, extreme fiscal austerity is particularly harmful. Harvard economist Dani Rodrik has shown that the most open economies tend to have sizable public sectors, because government consumption can be used to offset the income volatility that free trade typically generates. The Big Government Bogie, in other words, may actually make free trade politically and economically sustainable. “Scaling governments down without paying attention to the economic insecurities generated by globalization,” Rodrik cautions, “may actually harm the prospects of maintaining global free trade...
...this is one of the worst, with well over half of firms taking the federal government for a ride. Instead of trying to beat corporations at their own game, the U.S. would be much better off going after the real target of corporate taxes. The wealthy tend to own more equity and should be taxed directly rather than through a corporate vehicle. Doing so might not be palatable to politicians who have used complex tax policy to mislead the public for some time, but this change would ultimately get to the heart of redistribution of wealth without the wasted time...
...truly multinational corporation--says he has found time to meditate on the possibilities of voluntary idleness (he's worth about $1.3 billion, according to Forbes). Maybe he would unmoor his yacht and sail off into the South China Sea. Or maybe he'd head to his farm and tend to his prized fighting cocks. Maybe. It's just that things keep cropping up at work, he explains...
...World foundation. Substandard road networks and power grids still place much of India deep in the developing world. While the government talks about revamping its decrepit state airlines and airports, it has yet to take action. "Appalling, desperate," is how one Western airline executive describes the first impression visitors tend to have of India's airports. Even so, she says, there is sufficient passenger demand to triple the number of flights into the country. But for decades, plans to open new routes and increase flights have been largely stifled by a combination of red tape, corruption and concerns over...