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Danish Companies Win Higher Interest by Overpaying Taxes

Danish Companies Win Higher Interest by Overpaying Taxes
That makes the Tax Ministry a more attractive place for companies to store surpluses -- costing the government and potentially even diluting central bank policy. “It's clear there's an incentive,” said Jacob Braestrup, head of tax policy for the ...
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Hungary: Government seeks to lure young expats back home
Many EU countries have experienced a "brain drain" of young people leaving in search of work and better salaries elsewhere, and about 350,000 Hungarians are currently working abroad, according to the national statistics office. But critics of the 100m ...
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Fact Checker: Claim that there has been one school shooting a week since ...
A review of government studies on gun violence at schools showed narrower methods. For example, the National Center for Education Statistics and Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2013 report on school crime and safety specifically looks at the percentage ...
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The Enemy You Know and the Ally You Don't
In September of last year, Nujaifi paid $ 300,000 of his own money to a Washington consulting firm to help rally support among influential foreign-policy elites and policymakers in the United States for his plan to arm a state militia for Nineveh. This ...
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Where to Invest Around the World, 2015 Edition
India's up, America's down, and Venezuela brings up the rear in the Baseline Profitability Index. By Daniel AltmanDaniel Altman is senior editor, economics at Foreign Policy and is an adjunct professor at New York University's Stern School of Business ...
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After SCOTUS Ruling, China's Twitter Is Trending Rainbows Too
By Bethany Allen-EbrahimianBethany Allen-Ebrahimian is a Tea Leaf Nation fellow at Foreign Policy. She spent four years in China before joining Foreign Policy and holds a master's degree in East Asian studies from Yale University. June 26, 2015; bethany.
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Viral in China: A Bittersweet Farewell to Hong Kong
A former lawyer in New York and Hong Kong, David first encountered China as a Peace Corps volunteer. He has appeared on BBC television, Al Jazeera English, Public Radio International, Voice of America, and other outlets as a commentator on China.
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Get Hard and While We're Young out on DVD

Get Hard and While We're Young out on DVD
Accused of hedge-fund fraud at the family firm of his money-grubbing fiancée (Alison Brie) and future father-in-law (Craig T. Nelson), Ferrell's James King fearfully faces 10 years in San Quentin State Prison. Terrified at the prospect of a decade of ...
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French arrest in Russian tax fraud scandal
Campaigners at Hermitage Capital, the British-based hedge fund that employed Mr Magnitsky and which has been crusading for justice since his death in jail, claim to have traced some of the money to a company owned by a 58-year-old French citizen.
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Iran's Missiles Are a Windfall for US Defense Contractors

Iran's Missiles Are a Windfall for US Defense Contractors
“The Saudis and Emiratis don't trust the deal, no matter what the deal is,” Grant Rogan, CEO of Blenheim Capital and a military sales expert, told Foreign Policy. He predicted more sales of Patriot missiles and advanced radar systems “happening in ...
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China's Your Country, We Just Live in It
Xiao Qiang, adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Information, told Foreign Policy via email that the phrase is actually well-worn “political sarcasm” that has gotten popular in the last two to three years. Inputting ...
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Israel Decidedly Unhappy with Vatican-Palestine Treaty
For the Vatican, the decision represents another unabashed and controversial move into the foreign policy arena. It follows efforts to broker Washington's watershed decision to re-establish relations with Cuba late last year, and the recent release of ...
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