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In short, Google is changing expectations about what people can know – even in the United States, where formal censorship is absent, but government obfuscation, opaque corporations, and the like are not.

International trade rules, which are the result of painstaking negotiations among diverse interests – including, most notably, corporations and their lobbies, cannot be expected to discriminate reliably between these two sets of circumstances.

Yet the fact is that Trump’s trade agenda is driven by a narrow mercantilism that privileges the interests of US corporations over other stakeholders.

Of these, the most immediate threat to China’s economic and financial stability is the combination of high borrowing costs, low profitability for nonfinancial corporations, and very high corporate leverage ratios.

According to a study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the debt/GDP ratio for China’s nonfinancial corporations was 113% by the end of 2012.

Indeed, Chinese firms’ profitability amounted to just over 6% last year, with 2012 profits for China’s 500 largest (mostly state-owned) corporations barely exceeding 2%.

And, in the second quarter of this year, the annualized interest rate on loans to small nonfinancial corporations surpassed 25%.

With insufficient profits to use for investment, nonfinancial corporations will become increasingly dependent on external finance.

At a minimum, Western governments and corporations should not be complicit.

The US Supreme Court has interpreted the US Constitution in a way that vitiates all restrictions on campaign spending, essentially allowing wealthy American individuals and corporations to buy elections.

Most countries have similar tax preferences for debt over equity, thereby encouraging financial and other corporations to use more debt, as financial analysts have long known.

Chinese corporations’ high level of debt could be a source of financial instability, although several officials stressed that they were not worried.

Already, the economics of Argentina’s dash for gas has resulted in massive transfers from households, businesses, and the state to fossil-fuel corporations.

The Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United, which opened the floodgates for political contributions by corporations, should be reversed.

Moreover, China now holds a massive volume of overseas assets and liabilities; its non-financial corporations have borrowed as much as $1 trillion abroad.

Added to this “new isolationism” is the fact that governments, multi-national corporations, and international bodies can often find themselves too distracted to maintain the perspective that they need to build a comprehensive problem-solving agenda.

Governments, corporations, civil-society groups, academia, and international organizations are full of experts who can, when brought together, achieve a critical mass of insight.

Multinational corporations and villagers alike can share the fruits of progress.

Corporations are allowed to deduct interest payments on bonds, but stock dividends are effectively taxed at the both the corporate and the individual level.

For all their subliminal paid promotions and subtle product placements, corporations are getting drubbed in the main story lines of our popular culture.

To be sure, sociopathic corporations have populated books and films for more than a century.

Most corporations, after all, are merely convenient mechanisms for ensuring that scarce global capital is used at maximum efficiency, to the benefit of all.

The simple truth is that corporations represent capital, and capital – in the form of factories, equipment, machines, money, and even houses – has been the single biggest winner in the modern era of globalization.

Even in moribund economies like Germany and Italy, where employment security is vanishing, corporations are swimming in cash.

Indeed, corporations’ growing share of income has been a major driver behind the long, if uneven, bull market in stocks that began in the early 1990’s.

The same mechanism that pours profits into the pockets of global corporations also prevents governments from claiming a larger share of the spoils.

If so, then Hollywood’s cartoon-like caricatures of evil multinational corporations may some day seize mainstream consciousness, leading to political upheavals that shatter today’s social contract.

Governments – and corporations – must find better ways to provide equal opportunity through improved education, broader financial markets, and other channels.

Modernizing Corporate TaxationBERKELEY – How to tax the income of multinational corporations (MNCs) was an unlikely headline topic at the recent G-8 summit in Ireland.

But it would not reduce incentives for US corporations to shift their reported profits to low-tax jurisdictions; on the contrary, such incentives would be even stronger in a pure territorial system.

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