The problem for everyone involved is that in reality the investors made nothing and merely received a portion of their own money as though it had come from the trust. But it didn’t come from the trust because the trust didn’t even have a bank account. If the banks had disclosed the truth of the […]

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without raising taxes one cent, many states could recover much or all of their deficit and perhaps some states could be looking at a surplus. The money is sitting on Wall Street waiting to be claimed through existing tax laws, regulatory fees, and even damage claims much like the Tobacco litigation. Editor’s Note: Bob Herbert […]

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With the Obama administration and private lenders actively considering mortgage-principal-reduction programs to help financially distressed homeowners, the Internal Revenue Service has issued an advisory to taxpayers who receive — or seek to receive — such assistance if it’s offered. Editor’s Note: The only thing I would add to this, for the moment, is that any […]

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