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Even more important, the information revolution is creating virtual communities and networks that cut across national borders, and transnational
corporations
and non-governmental actors - terrorists included - will play larger roles.
Governments issue GDP-linked bonds to raise funds, just as
corporations
issue shares.
The big winners in relative terms were
corporations
and the rich, who benefited from dramatically reduced tax rates.
That’s a political imperative: with
corporations
sitting on trillions of dollars in cash while ordinary Americans are suffering, lowering the average amount of corporate taxation would be unconscionable – and more so if taxes were lowered for the financial sector, which brought on the 2008 crisis and never paid for the economic damage.
One of the most significant problems concerns taxation of US corporations’ foreign-earned income.
Democrats believe that, because US corporations, wherever they operate, benefit from America’s rule of law and power to ensure that they are not mistreated (often guaranteed by treaty), they ought to pay for these and other advantages.
Small countries are the sole exception, because they can pursue beggar-thy-neighbor policies aimed at poaching
corporations
from their neighbors.
In a country with so many problems – especially inequality – tax cuts for rich
corporations
will not solve any of them.
These barriers are supported by deep-pocketed, self-serving
corporations
and lobby groups, and defended by politicians who are scared that the redistribution of jobs, income, and wealth resulting from freer trade will reduce their chances of remaining in power.
Free trade is good not only for big corporations, or for job growth.
Each of these commodities is an important input for major
corporations.
In his speech, Trump promised to be a president for all Americans, praised Clinton for her past public service, and vowed to pursue massive fiscal-stimulus policies centered on infrastructure spending and tax cuts for
corporations
and the wealthy.
On the first question, one hypothesis is that new digital technologies are changing the structural incentives for corporations, political parties, and other major institutions.
Consider the case of
corporations.
In other words, markets are increasingly geared toward a winner-take-all game: multiple
corporations
can compete, but to the victor go the spoils.
And, as with corporations, they can do so with the help of data on electoral preferences and behavior, and with new strategies to target key constituencies.
Unlike
corporations
and political parties, ordinary citizens are not locked into winner-takes-all games, because they can make small moral commitments without incurring intolerable costs.
I believe there are
corporations
and political groups that actually want to adhere to minimal moral standards but cannot, for fearing of losing everything.
Voters need to learn that their electoral and consumption decisions can fundamentally alter the nature of the game that
corporations
and politicians play.
Instead, crisis-affected global financial entities have used it to support their efforts to deleverage and to rebuild their capital, while large
corporations
have been building large cash reserves and refinancing their debt under favorable conditions.
Indeed, while European citizens are being asked to sacrifice their standard of living – and even their livelihoods – for the sake of the “national economy,” transnational
corporations
are thriving.
India has been a major and growing outsourcing location for Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, British Airways, and other major
corporations.
In the last three years alone, fines for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) – under which
corporations
with ties to the US face criminal penalties for paying bribes to foreign government officials – have exceeded $2.1 billion.
In practice, this often leads to their arguments being captured by interest groups on the other side – global
corporations
that seek to manipulate trade rules to their own advantage.
The mid-term elections cost an estimated $4.5 billion, with most of the contributions coming from big
corporations
and rich contributors.
The key to corporations’ rejuvenation, civilizations’ evolution, and human development in general is simple: innovation.
Rising youth unemployment and cuts in pensions and social expenditures come at a time when many large multinational
corporations
legally avoid taxes by shifting their profits to favorable jurisdictions.
When these programs end, governments, some emerging markets, and some
corporations
could be vulnerable.
Likewise, US and European non-financial
corporations
saved $710 billion from lower debt-service payments, with ultra-low interest rates thus boosting profits by about 5% in the US and the UK, and by 3% in the eurozone.
Emerging markets’ share of the global debt stock rose from 7% in 2007 to 26% in 2017, and credit to non-financial
corporations
in these countries increased from 56% of GDP in 2008 to 105% in 2017.
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