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Corporate Political Spending and State Tax Policy: Evidence from Citizens United

Harvard Corporate Governance

For example, the editorial board of the New York Times wrote that it “paved the way for corporations to use their vast treasuries to overwhelm elections and intimidate elected officials into doing their bidding.” Critics decried the devastating impacts of independent spending by corporations.

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SEC Chair Speaks About the Treasury Markets and the Debt Ceiling Discussions

Reynolds Holding

5] After all we achieved to reform the swaps markets, Scott O’Malia—your CEO and a former fellow CFTC Commissioner—has asked me to return for yet another lively Chicago discussion, this time about our work in the $24 trillion Treasury markets. Treasuries are embedded in money market funds. Treasuries are embedded in money market funds.

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IRS Issues Proposed Regulations That Refine Estate and Gift Tax Anti-Clawback Rule

Machen McChesney

The Treasury Department, on April 26, 2022, released proposed regulations limiting the anti-clawback rule previously published on November 26, 2019.

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SEC Chair Gensler on Proposed Rules for U.S. Treasuries Clearing

Reynolds Holding

Treasury securities. The $24 trillion Treasury market—the deepest, most liquid market in the world—is the base upon which so much of our capital markets are built. Treasury markets are integral to how the Federal Reserve administers monetary policy. We are the issuer. Why are clearinghouses important?

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In Search of a Steady State: Inflation, Interest Rates and Value

Musings on Markets

There are three possible explanations for the divergence: Short term versus Long term : The consumer survey extracts an expectation of inflation in the near term, whereas the treasury markets are providing a longer term perspective, since I am using ten-year rates to derive the market-implied inflation.

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IRS Issues Proposed Regulations That Refine Estate and Gift Tax Anti-Clawback Rule

Machen McChesney

The Treasury Department, on April 26, 2022, released proposed regulations limiting the anti-clawback rule previously published on November 26, 2019.

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IVSC Webinars Series 2023 – Bios

IVSC

Alistair Darling Chair of the IVSC Board of Trustees Alistair Darling was appointed Chair of the IVSC Board of Trustees during the Singapore AGM in October 2019. He entered Parliament at the 1987 General Election in Edinburgh Central and, following the 1997 General Election, he entered Cabinet as the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

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