New Tax Law Strokes Hedge Fund Managers After tense moments in the great tax debates of 2010, two important tax breaks for hedge funds and investment managers survived repeal efforts from Congress and the White House. Although Democrats tried hard to repeal “carried interest” tax breaks for investment managers, along with a related repeal of the S-Corp self-employment (SE) tax reduction breaks for professionals (including investment managers), Republicans saved the day with a successful filibuster blocking cloture on tax increases. We covered that drama on our blog and in our podcasts, click here and here. 2010年の偉大な税の議論に緊張分後に、ヘッジファンドや投資マネジャーにとって重要な2つの減税は、議会とホワイトハウスから廃止の努力を生き残った
Govt MPs oppose listing of P.Vihear A total of 120 MPs of the Democrat Party and its coalition partners on Wednesday afternoon submitted a letter to House Speaker Chai Chidchob calling on him to ask Unesco to put the listing of Preah Vihear temple as a world heritage site on hold. 民主党と水曜日の午後には、連立パートナーの120議員の合計が保留に世界遺産としてプレアビヒア寺院のリストを入れてユネスコを聞いて彼を呼び出す下院議長チャイChidchobへの手紙を提出した
Superlawyer Stanley Chesley Faces Disbarment Over Fen-Phen Case A trial commissioner for the Kentucky Bar Association has recommended that Ohio superlawyer Stanley Chesley, Democratic kingmaker and husband of a federal judge, lose his license for engineering a settlement of fen-phen claims that violated some of the most fundamental rules of lawyering. ケンタッキー州弁護士協会審判委員は、オハイオ州superlawyerスタンレーChesleyは、民主党の実力者と夫の連邦裁判官の、弁護士の最も基本的なルールをいくつかに違反フェンフェン債権の決済をエンジニアリングのための彼の資格を失うことをお勧めしています
State of the union buildup puts Obama ahead in PR battle | Michael Tomasky Barack Obama's state of the union address has been framed as middle-ground, while Republicans are on the defensiveThe White House, perhaps having learned from some of its errors over the past two years, handled the runup to Barack Obama's second state of the union address adeptly. This runup is a five-days-or-so period of raising and lowering expectations with timely and well-placed leaks that attempt to frame the way the media talk and write about the speech beforehand. Both sides play, of course, and the Republicans are generally pretty good at this sort of thing.But heading into tonight's speech, it seems to me that the White House people are clearly winning this public relations battle. They managed to get the speech framed as Obama reaching out to the middle with various non-controversial proposals on popular issues such as education, research and innovation. The president's recent (or current) comeback in the polls among independent voters helps to drive this narrative.At the same time, the White House has managed to placate Democrats to his left – for now, anyway – by making it clear that Obama will not be discussing possible cuts to social security in the speech. Here was another layer of what we Americans call inside baseball. About three weeks ago, blind quotes from administration aides started appearing in news stories speculating that Obama might be willing to put social security on the table. I'm not clear on whether these leaks came from people who wanted that to happen or did not, or both. In any case, the pushback from the left was enough that liberals' most cherished policy of all seems safe for now.Finally and most importantly, Republicans are on the defensive. It's nearly become conventional wisdom in Washington that the Republicans' budget numbers do 共和党はdefensiveTheホワイトハウスにしている間組合アドレスのバラクオバマの状態が労働組合のアドレスのバラクオバマの第2の状態に遡上を扱った、おそらく過去2年間、そのエラーの一部から学んだこと、中間グランドとして囲まれている巧み
Once were rulers - Mubarak's party now in disarray CAIRO - In retrospect, Hosni Mubarak's one-time ruling party may have made the biggest single contribution to his stunning downfall.The National Democratic Party (NDP), for decades the country's dominant political force, was widely... カイロは - 振り返ってみると、ムバラクのワンタイム与党は、数十年のための彼の素晴らしいdownfall.The国民民主党（NDP）は、その国の支配的な政治力を最大の単一な貢献をしたかもしれない、広くていた...
US embassy cables: Pakistan committed to defending conviction of Omar Saeed Sheikh for Daniel Pearl murder Cable dated:2006-11-16T12:00:00C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 ISLAMABAD 022025SIPDISNOFORN SIPDISE.O. 12958: DECL: 11/14/2016TAGS: CASC, ECON, KCRM, PGOV, PK, PREL, PTERSUBJECT: INTERIOR MINISTER SHERPAO ON HIGH PROFILE TERROR CASES, IPR AND MISSING AMCITREF: A. ISLAMABAD 21222 B. PESHAWAR 653 C. ISLAMABAD 21882 D. ISLAMABAD 16421Classified By: Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)1. (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting, the Ambassador and Interior Minister Sherpao reviewed U.S.-Pakistani cooperation on the investigation into the 2006 Karachi Consulate bombing. Sherpao assured the Ambassador that the Government of Pakistan (GOP) is committed to defending the conviction of Omar Saeed Sheikh for the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The Minister re-affirmed that government plans to charge the leader of a Punjab-based militant organization under the Security of Pakistan Act, but said that the arrest would be delayed until later in November. Sherpao was receptive to the Ambassador's suggestion that his Ministry establish a dedicated intellectual property rights unit in the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA), but did not respond to the Ambassador's query regarding the whereabouts of missing AMCIT Dr. Sardar Sarki. End summary.FBI Cooperation---------------2. (C) The Ambassador opened the conversation by previewing the November 17 visit of FBI Director Robert Mueller to Islamabad and reviewing the status of FBI cooperation with the GOP on several high-profile terrorism cases. Minister Sherpao indicated that arrangements would soon be made to allow Embassy LEGAT officers access to two suspects in the March 2006 Karachi Consulate bombing. Sherpao noted that the third suspect in the case -- Qari Zafar, believed to be the mastermin 03イスラマバード022025SIPDISNOFORN SIPDISE.Oの午後12時00分総務ONFIDENTIALセクション01：ケーブルが:2006 - 11 - 16T12日付
Democrat: Red leaders 'outdated leftists' Democrat MP Attaporn Ponlaboot has accused red-shirt leaders of exploiting their supporters in a desperate bid to achieve their outdated, hidden political agenda. 民主党MPのAttaporn Ponlabootは、時代遅れの、隠された政治的な課題を達成するために必死で彼らの支持を悪用するの赤シャツの指導者を非難している
Panich, 5 new MPs not allowed to vote Democrat MP Panich Vikitsreth and five newly-elected MPs have been asked by Parliament President Chai Chidchob not to vote on charter amendments to prevent legislative problems. 民主党MPのPanich Vikitsreth五新しく選出された議員は、立法の問題を防ぐために、憲章の改正に投票しないように議会が大統領チャイChidchobように頼まれてきました
Why Adam Smith Isn't Welcome In The Defense Industry General Electric and partner Rolls-Royce Group suffered a major setback last Wednesday when the House of Representatives voted not to fund a high-performance jet engine the two companies are developing for use on the Pentagon's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. GE's engine is designed to compete with a propulsion system that the Pratt & Whitney unit of United Technologies has already developed to equip 2,400 single-engine F-35s being bought by three U.S. military services and thousands more being bought by overseas allies. The company contends that competition would reduce the price and improve the performance of both engines over the life of the program. But 123 House Democrats joined with 110 Republicans to remove funding for fiscal 2011, meaning that the GE-Rolls engine is in jeopardy if the Senate fails to provide funding and then prevail in a conference between the two chambers to reconcile spending measures. 衆議院は、2つの企業が米国防総省のF - 35ジョイントストライクファイターで使用するために開発している高性能ジェットエンジンに資金を提供しないように投票の際にゼネラルエレクトリック社とパートナーRolls - Royce社グループは先週の水曜日の主要な打撃を被った
The Looming Failure of Obamacare, Part 1: Information In order to protect the core of Obamacare, Congressional Democrats have recently begun to acquiesce to a few incremental changes to the legislation that fix some of the most egregious parts of the plan (e.g. the burdensome 1099 requirements). The implicit message is that yes, the legislation was rushed and has some flaws, but these flaws can be fixed by targeted tweaks around the edges. Obamacareのコアを保護するために、議会民主党は最近、計画（負担1099の要件など）の最も悪質な部分の一部を修正した法案にいくつかの増分変更を黙認し始めている
Governor blocks bison cull Montana's Governor has signed an executive order blocking the shipment of 525 of Yellowstone National Park bison to slaughter. Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer said he was worried the shipments could spread the disease brucellosis... モンタナ州の知事は、虐殺にイエローストーン国立公園bisonの525の出荷をブロックする行政命令に署名した
PM’s aide confirms an early poll Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is preparing to dissolve the House of Representatives before June, chairman of the Democrat Party election campaign committee Korbsak Sabhavasu,confirmed on Friday. 内閣総理大臣アビシットは、6月、金曜日に確。民主党の選挙キャンペーン委員会Korbsak Sabhavasu、会長の前衆議院を解散する準備を進めている
Democrat gets largest donation Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s Democrat Party received the largest amount of donation at 22.12 million baht from Jan to Dec last year, the Election Commission reported on Friday. 内閣総理大臣アビシットの民主党は、昨年12月〜1月から22120000バーツで寄付の最大量を受け、選挙管理委員会は金曜日に報告した
Dem MPs worry over southern unrest Southern Democrat Party MPs on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the rising level of terrorist violence in the three southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat. 水曜日の南部民主党議員は、パタニ、ヤラーとナラティワートの南部3国境地域におけるテロの暴力の立ち上がりレベルの深い懸念を表明した
Dem's fund-raising dinner Mar 8 The Democrat Party will hold a fund-raising dinner on Mar 8 to prepare for the forthcoming elections, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said on Friday. 民主党は来るべき選挙に備えて3月8日の資金調達ディナーを保持する、副首相はステープThaugsubanによると
Obama Sets Up Sideshow Budget Battle The Obama budget confirms what we already knew—neither tax reform nor significant increases in revenues are on the table. Neither are major entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. The coming budget debate will be fought over a small sliver of spending. This is ground where Republicans feel quite comfortable and Democrats do not. オバマ氏の予算は、我々はすでに知っていた-どちらも、税制改革や収益の大幅な増加は、テーブルの上にあるかを確認します
PAD: Karun's arrest 'political game' The arrest of People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) key member and former senator Karun Sai-ngam has other yellow-shirt leaders wondering just what the Democrat-led government is really about. 民主主義のための人民連合の逮捕は、（PAD）の主要メンバー、元上院議員のKarun彩のガムは思ってもう一方の黄色いシャツの指導者を持つだけで民主党主導の政府が実際に何であるか
Fascinating budget history (really) | Michael Tomasky The better that we're all on the same information-rich page, I tracked down the following, which is the most useful table I've seen in some time. It lists US budget spending in the main categories from 1962 through 2015 (estimated spending for the years that haven't yet happened). To see it, go to this page from whitehouse.gov and then click on Table 8.1, Outlays by Budget Enforcement Act Category 1962-2015. You'll get an Excel spreadsheet with all the goods.The reason to do this is to see just how daunting historically is the idea of cutting non-defense discretionary spending. This category - which is really what right-wingers are talking about when they rail against the guvmint - is clearly marked on the spreadsheet, and you will see that it has gone from $19.5 billion in 1962 to $581 billion in 2009. I went into the table and did some breakdowns and ran some numbers. They support what we generally know. Nixon was a big domestic spender because he only really cared about foreign policy and let the Democrats run the domestic shop, more or less. Reagan slowed the rate of growth of spending and even cut it, a little, two years out of eight. Dubya: kaboomba, through the roof.President by president, the numbers look like this. Bear in mind that I may have miscalculated by a hair insofar as I sometimes wasn't sure whether to put a transition year in the exiting or arriving president's total, so a true wonk might take issue with my calculations. But even if I was off by one year in some cases, it would not throw my overall percentages off by all that much. Here's what I got:Johnson: 1964: $24.1 billion1969: 35.8Increase: 48.5%Nixon:1969: 35.81975: 70.3Increase: 96.4%Ford:1975: 70.31977: 99.6Increase: 41.7%Carter:1977: 99.61981: 149.9Increase: 50.5%Reagan:1981: 149.91989: 184 より私たちは同じ情報が豊富なページ上のすべてのしていることを、私はいくつかの時間で見た中で最も便利なテーブルです次のように追跡
Voting the Australian way shows AV would make little difference in Britain The system in the only established democracy to use AV offers a guide to the UK – but there are differencesWhat might the alternative vote mean in practice? Australia is the best guide. The country has used the system since 1918 – introduced by two divided centre-right parties desperate to stop Labor squeezing between them to win under first past the post.As a result, election day in Australia is all about colourful pieces of card. Party supporters stand outside polling stations handing out instructions on how to vote. If you are a Labor supporter, you take the Labor card and use it to rank candidates from all parties in the order the local Labor party thinks best. You don't have to follow the cards, but most people do.Something similar could happen in Britain soon. Australia is the only established democracy to use AV and one whose politics and parliament are superficially similar to ours.Unfortunately, campaigners here overlook the differences. Most importantly, voting is compulsory in Australia – and so, in federal elections, is ranking every candidate on the ballot paper. That means that even if you like Labor, you have to put the Liberal-National coalition somewhere on your list for your vote to count. Neither of these will be the case here. Evidence from Australian state elections, where ranking candidates is not compulsory, suggests many people will continue to vote for only one party, leaving other votes blank. If that happens in Britain, AV may make very little difference.Historically Australia has had a two-party system, with Labor facing the right-of-centre Liberal-National coalition. AV did not allow small parties to break through. Labor won re-election in 1990 thanks to Green and Australian Democrat AV preferences – first past the post would have seen a Lib のAVを使用するのみ確立民主主義のシステムは、英国へのガイドを提供しています - しかし、differencesWhatは、代替の投票が実際に意味するかもしれないがありますか？オーストラリアは最高のガイドです
Chiang Mai red-shirts back PAD Members of Rak Chiang Mai 51 group support the People’s Alliance for Democracy’s move to oust the prime minister and the Democrat-led government, core leader Worawut Rujanapinand said on Sunday. 首相と民主党主導の政権を交代させると民主主義の動きの楽チェンマイ51グループのサポート人民連合のメンバーは、コアリーダーWorawut Rujanapinandは日曜日を明らかにした
Opposition's Issoufou, Oumarou, lead in Niger: results Opposition leader Mahamadou Issoufou will face a protege of his long-time foe Mamadou Tandja in a March 12 run-off vote in Niger's presidential elections, near-complete results released Thursday indicated.Social Democratic Party leader Issoufou, 59, took most votes in Monday's first round, aimed at finding a civilian president in the uranium-rich west African country after a year of rule by a military junta that overthrew Tandja. 野党Mahamadou Issoufouはニジェールの大統領選挙3月12日流出投票で彼の長い間の敵ママドゥTandjaの弟子に直面するだろう、木曜日indicated.Social民主党代表Issoufou、59、リリースに近い完全な結果は、月曜日の中で最も票を取ったTandjaを倒して軍事政権による支配の1年の後、アフリカの国ウランの豊富な西部の民間人の大統領を見つけることを目的とした最初のラウンド
A private estate called Egypt | Salwa Ismail Only a thousand families count in a country that Mubarak and his cronies regard as their fiefdomThere is a lot more behind Hosni Mubarak digging in his heels and setting his thugs on the peaceful protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square than pure politics. This is also about money. Mubarak and the clique surrounding him have long treated Egypt as their fiefdom and its resources as spoils to be divided among them.Under sweeping privatisation policies, they appropriated profitable public enterprises and vast areas of state-owned lands. A small group of businessmen seized public assets and acquired monopoly positions in strategic commodity markets such as iron and steel, cement and wood. While crony capitalism flourished, local industries that were once the backbone of the economy were left to decline. At the same time, private sector industries making environmentally hazardous products like ceramics, marble and fertilisers have expanded without effective regulation at a great cost to the health of the population.A tiny economic elite controlling consumption-geared production and imports has accumulated great wealth. This elite includes representatives of foreign companies with exclusive import rights in electronics, electric cables and automobiles. It also includes real estate developers who created a construction boom in gated communities and resorts for the super-rich. Much of this development is on public land acquired at very low prices, with no proper tendering or bidding.It is estimated that around a thousand families maintain control of vast areas of the economy. This business class sought to consolidate itself and protect its wealth through political office. The National Democratic party was their primary vehicle for doing so. This alliance of money and politics bec 唯一の千の家族がムバラクと彼の取り巻きがfiefdomThereは彼のかかとのムバラク掘り、純粋な政治よりもカイロの解放党広場で平和的な抗議の彼の刺客を設定することの背後にはもっとたくさんいるとみなし、その国にカウントされます
Hackers Shut Down Government Sites The online group Anonymous said it brought down the sites of the Ministry of Information and President Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party in support of the antigovernment protests. オンライングループの匿名は、反政府抗議行動を支援する情報のムバラク大統領の国家民主。省のサイトを倒さと述べた
