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US law and demographics

Deporting illegal immigrants

Gov't sign discouraging illegal immigration to US

A ball park estimate of the cost of deporting illegal immigrants from the US would be somewhere north of $200 billion dollars — in the first year.

However, the presumed economic advantages of mass deportation seem illusive, while the political disadvantages to whatever Party were to try to enforce mass deportation, seem immense, even suicidal.

The solution to the US illegal immigration problem is an issue fraught with unintended political and economic consequences for all involved.

US Trade Deficit

America’s best unemployment insurance

Unemployed men hop train (Canada, 1933)

When the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffet, fretted last year that the trade deficit signified that foreigners were taking over the United States, he echoed common misunderstandings about the excess of US imports over exports and the growing volume of dollar assets held by the rest of the world.

The nice thing about the US trade deficit is that it represents the exchange of foreign goods and services for dollars, not foreign money.

US SEC

FASB fox guards investors’ henhouse

Fox guarding the henhouse

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is made up of seven members, six of whom are either ex-partners of major accounting firms or former high-ranking financial executives of their clients. Accounting practices and standards have a profound effect on capital flows, measured in hundreds of billions and even trillions of dollars. The interests of the issuers of securities are quite different from those of small investors who own these securities.

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Stock buybacks

Accelerating to a buyback-option blowout

By Q1 2006, stock buybacks had multiplied to five times the level of 2000. Buybacks grew by 25% in 2005, with corporate profits after taxes increasing only 5.5%. At these rates, buybacks will exceed after-tax profits by 2009.
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Securities Analysis

Truth, Fact, Opinion

In security analysis, it is important to get the facts, before forming an opinion. Effective collaborative research calls for rigorous separation of the fact-gathering from the decision-making stages of the process. More ...

US Politics

What is the future of private pension plans?

Between 1999 and 2002, US private pension funds lost US$ 1.2 trillion in value. It would almost seem that pension fund managers had been speculating with retirement money, attempting to beat each others' short-term performance statistics, with little interest in safeguarding the assets of plan beneficiaries. More ...

US equities

Sarbanes-Oxley and the shortage of equities

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, by discouraging companies to go public, will exacerbate the shortage of equities, with a negative effect on the US stock market, although this was not the intent of its authors. Poorly drafted, ill-conceived, and unfair this law does little to protect investors.
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US Bonds

Bond demand exceeds supply for a decade

Over the decade, 1995-2004, the demand for US bonds of all types has surpassed new bond issues in eight of the last ten years. This is the reason that bond prices have held firm, even in 2003, when net new issues reached almost $1.8 trillion. More ...

World Economy

Signs of US losing its groove?

Thirty years ago, US income from abroad was more than double the amount of income that the US paid to the rest of the world. This year, or the next, this foreign income surplus may disappear forever. Is the US 'losing its groove'? More ...

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