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UBS agrees to deal with the devil

UBS agrees to deal with the devil

I revoke my previous apology to the Swiss, and reiterate my previous disapproval.  As evidenced by the latest outcome in the U.S. tax case involving UBS, we have moved beyond troubling and into something much worse.

...the world’s largest wealth manager in terms of assets, agreed to pay a $780 million fine and disclose information about some of its clients to settle a landmark U.S. tax case.

As I said in my older post: “In direct contradiction to their own legal view of tax evasion. …

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Gypsy Hot Dog Vendors on the Horizon?

In Toronto, city officials have been waging a slow campaign against street hot dog vendors, many of whom, notes National Post columnist Kelly McParland, are “immigrants supporting families in the great Canadian tradition.” That a city government would go after such hard working people is bad enough. Now Toronto city officials are trying to smother the vendors in a blanket of paternalism. Says McParland:

Some time back, Councillor John Filion suggested tourists would appreciate a wider variety of street food, and…

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Are There No Workhouses?

Some people seem to think that having a mind for business and profit means you must be some kind of money-grubbing miser. Far from it, according to new research featured at the Insider Online. It seems that entrepreneurs give more generously to charitable causes, at every level of income, than non-entrepreneurs. Go figure.

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