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The claim is that he didn't declare $200M in income and hid it in off-shore accounts over a decade. Sounds like a large amount of money and a substantial time period.

Notice that his charitable giving began after he was aware the IRS was after him. There is evidence he committed criminal tax fraud, giving the money back or giving the money to ch…

That DB/rentech basket option is a tax avoidance scheme. It has nothing to do options pricing and concepts like delta, gamma, etc.

Well, we can agree to disagree, but I think there are many reasonable arguments against this deal that have nothing to do with the RWDSU and everything to do with a lack of transpa…

$500M is literally a check to Bezos. And it is a backroom deal in that there was no competitive process to redevelop LIC, which would allow other companies and developers to compet…

1) $500M of the deal is cash. That can be spent on other things. Many other companies are investing large sums in NYC without cash or tax incentives. Why give amazon special treatm…

NYC resident here. If Amazon wants to come to NYC, great, but why do they need corporate welfare including $500M in cash? We do not need them here, and they should pay full freight…

Well the direct mechanism in this case is hedge funds paying "placement agents" which fund the corruption, so they do have responsibility, even if they are not solely responsible.

Seems like Google has gone a ways from "don't be evil" to applying AI to tracking and targeting drones.

I'm an author of the underlying paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3025604 This article is very misleading in several ways: (1) we do not work for the Finni…

He made fake edits that were against the terms of service. Why should Google tolerate that?

There is a lot of empirical evidence supporting the fact that the rich "own" government, or, more precisely, that politicians vote in ways that are more correlated with beliefs of …