That was the Dow Jones headline today (Wednesday) that confirms a Capitol Hill rumor we revealed to you last week. The word is that powerful U.S. Senate Finance Committee chairman, Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont), (left) has all but rejected the radical anti-tax haven legislation introduced last week b...

The Sunshine Week 2009 Toolkit is being updated just about every day. Everything in there is free to any participant to use during Sunshine Week 2009, March 15-21. Offerings include: Opinion columns: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) discusses recent Freedom of......

"I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill’s famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn towards victory, pugnaciously affirmed that great British leader's l...

Image by maveric2003 via Flickr Not everyone in a company hears the same thing at the same time. Everyone hasn’t gone to the same meetings, had the same hallway conversations, seen the same PowerPoint decks, read the same emails, or......

VH-3D (top), VH-60N (click to view full) P2P Intelligence firm Tiversa claims that in Oct/Nov 2008, it traced a file that contains details regarding the VH-60N Presidential Helicopter’s CAAS... [summary]...

I love Obama and so does Singapore. First the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) went along with the US government and converted its Citibank preferred stock to common stock suffering a paper loss of more than a billion dollars according to its own calculation. And now Singapore ha...

It was supposed to be a big Washington week for the senior Senator from Michigan, the ultra-leftist Carl Levin, chairman of Senator Joe McCarthy's old hangout, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. What with the world awash in a major economic recession, on Monday when Levin rein...

American International Group (AIG), "which is receiving its fourth taxpayer bailout, has four public relations firms on its payroll" -- Kekst & Company, Sard Verbinnen, Hill & Knowlton and Burson-Marsteller -- in addition to its own PR staff. While bailout recipients have been criticized for...

The chairman of Switzerland's largest bank announced yesterday that he is stepping down, less than two weeks after the banking giant UBS admitted it defrauded the U.S. government by helping American clients evade taxes....

In a delicious display of irony, if not chutzpah, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday said that he and President Barack Obama's administration supports legislation that would make all Americans who use offshore tax havens presumed guilty of tax evasion. The irony is that Geithner's c...