TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Victor Fleischer (Illinois) presents A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. ___ (2009), at San Diego today as part of its Tax Law Speaker Series. Here is the abstract: Sovereign wealth funds enjoy an exemption from tax...
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bart De Meester (Institute for International Law) has posted International Legal Aspects of Sovereign Wealth Funds: Reconciling International Economic Law and the Law of State Immunities with a New Role of the State on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Clive Corcoran submits: Bill Gross of PIMCO has suggested that we may be facing a new economic environment where the ground rules have changed sufficiently that previous benchmarks for applying valuations for equities no longer apply. In other words don't count on a new bull market in stocks any time soon. "Stocks are cheap when valued within the context of a financed-based economy once dominated...
SCOTUSblog (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
The federal government on Tuesday recommended the Court deny certiorari in Biomedical Patent Management Corp. v. California Dept. of Health Services (07-956), a patent dispute involving the limits of state sovereign immunity. The brief, filed in response to an order last April inviting the views of the Solicitor General, is available here. To view previous [...]
AskMen.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tissot might be a lesser-known name, but its Heritage Sovereign will make you feel regal.
FelixSalmon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lou Jiwei , the head of China's CIC sovereign wealth fund, is saying some interesting things: "Right now we do not have the courage to invest in financial institutions because we do not know what problems they may have," Mr. Lou said as part of a panel discussion on the second and final day of the Clinton Global Initiative conference here. Asked whether China might pursue economic policies...
Market Movers (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lou Jiwei , the head of China's CIC sovereign wealth fund, is saying some interesting things: "Right now we do not have the courage to invest in financial institutions because we do not know what problems they may have," Mr. Lou said as part of a panel discussion on the second and final day of the Clinton Global Initiative conference here. Asked whether China might pursue economic policies...
NOTCouture (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Wonderful wool ties by Sovereign Beck. Loving the color infusion within...and can't go wrong with wool.
Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | yesterday
Admission To Trading Of Luxembourg’s Largest Sovereign Bond Issue04/12/08The Luxembourg Stock Exchange commenced secondary trading on 4 December 2008 of a bond issue of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for an amount of EUR 2,000,000,000. This issue is the largest amount ever issued by the Luxembourg state and follows the very successful primary offer period that was mainly addressed to retail investors...
ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iraq is Sovereign, The War Is Over The SOFA is signed The Status of Forces Agreement between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America was signed November 17, 2008. The war is over and we will leave Iraq proper within three years time of this agreement, provided no amendments to the SOFA are made. The SOFA reads just [...]
Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
China's sovereign wealth fund said it wouldn't 'dare' invest in foreign financial firms after losing $6 billion on stakes in Morgan Stanley and Blackstone Group LP.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
The fund directors behind China’s $200 billion sovereign wealth fund say they have no intention of channeling more funds into Western financial companies at this time, because of limited insight into what kind of shape they are in, and the effect of government bailouts, according to a media report.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Bangkok - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Monday downgraded its outlook on Thailand's sovereign credit from stable to negative, in response to Bangkok's two airports being closed down by anti-government protestors for almost a week. The rece...
Tea with FT (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Sir Paul J. Davies and Nikki Tait report “Concern over Brussels rating agencies plan”, December 1. What can one say? If a Hugo Chávez feels he needs a Banco del Sur to make a difference in this world why should not Europe want to have their Credit Rating Agency de Europa? And, with respect to that ´This introduces an extra-territorial approach and will be seen as protectionism” why should Europe also...
Late Holiday Deals Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
One of the places I will not be recommending for a holiday is Menorca, and in particular Santo Tomas. 14 days were more than ample to sample everything there was to sample. We prefer Half Board for…
