Reports

In the context of high global prices for natural resources, developing country governments seeking to increase the benefits of those resources for their own people are finding themselves increasingly at odds with transnational corporations.

This report challenges the premise that America is broke. In fact, we argue that the current fiscal challenge poses an opportunity to harness our ample but misdirected resources in ways that will make the country stronger.

Some of America's most flush corporations are demanding a  tax holiday on their profits sitting offshore. But the last holiday produced a nasty hangover.

U.S. negotiators are hardliners against capital controls in current Trans-Pacific trade talks with eight other countries.  Their position is more rigid than the International Monetary Fund and previous U.S. regimes, including the Reagan administration. This briefing paper concludes with recommendations for reforming U.S. trade and investment agreements to allow governments to use this proven tool for preventing and mitigating financial crisis.

Of last year's 100 highest-paid U.S. corporate chief executives in the United States, 25 took home more in CEO pay than their company paid in 2010 federal corporate income taxes, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies.