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Exit Taxes Won't Save Failing States Authored by Vance Ginn via TheDailyEconomy.org, When a state starts floating an exit tax, it is telling you something more important than any campaign slogan: the people running the place know their model is not working.  They may not say it that way. They will call it fairness, responsibility, or making the wealthy “pay what they owe.” But the meaning is the same.  If families, entrepreneurs, and investors are leaving, the state can either ask why its policies are pushing them out, or it can try to tax...

European economists regard Spain’s former central bank governor Pablo Hernández de Cos and his Dutch counterpart Klaas Knot as top picks to become the next ECB president.

Ghislaine Maxwell To Rot In Prison After Judge Denies Bid For New Trial Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell gets to rot in prison until 2037 after a judge on Tuesday denied her bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and hold a new trial.  "Nearly all its claims are procedurally barred; the overwhelming testimonial and documentary evidence adduced at trial conclusively established her guilt; and her petition's claims are demonstrably meritless, and generally based on speculation, distortions, and/or outright falsehoods," Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District...