Tag: Treasury Department

  • Navigating the Crossroads: The United States, the OECD, and the Future of International Taxation

    Navigating the Crossroads: The United States, the OECD, and the Future of International Taxation

    In 2025, the United States Congress will stand at a pivotal crossroads, facing a decision with far-reaching implications for international taxation, tax competition, and the global economy at large. The choice before it is stark and consequential: to align with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) proposed tax increases, or to assert autonomy…

  • U.S. Treasury Money a New Era in Finance

    U.S. Treasury Money a New Era in Finance

    The Impact of Trump’s Executive Order 13772 Executive Order 13772, titled “Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System,” signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on February 3, 2017, marked a significant shift in the regulatory approach towards the financial sector and creation of Treasury Money. This order, the eighth executive action in Trump’s…

  • The Fed’s Cure Risks Being Worse Than the Disease

    The Fed’s Cure Risks Being Worse Than the Disease

    (Bloomberg Opinion) March 27, 2020 — The economic debate of the day centers on whether the cure of an economic shutdown is worse than the disease of the virus. Similarly, we need to ask if the cure of the Federal Reserve (Fed) getting so deeply into corporate bonds, asset-backed securities, commercial paper, and exchange-traded funds…

  • U.S. PIRG Statement on Treasury Rule to Limit Corporate Tax Avoidance

    Statement from U.S. PIRG advocate Michelle Surka on new Treasury Department rule to limit multinational corporate tax avoidance: “We applaud the step the Treasury Department has taken to curb the epidemic of corporate tax avoidance. Based on early analysis, the new rule introduced by the Treasury could recover close to $600 million worth of federal…