by Andrew F. Quinlan | Nov 4, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on The Blaze on November 2, 2015. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s public crackdown on corruption has captivated Western media, leading to sensational stories like recent reports that golf club membership is among the newly announced list of...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Oct 7, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on Inside Sources on October 6, 2015. Under tremendous pressure from world leaders, including President Obama, leaders of the South Sudan government in August agreed to a peace deal with rebels as means of ending the nation’s burgeoning civil...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 25, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on Inside Sources on September 25, 2015. In politics, there is an often-used phrase called “Bootleggers and Baptists.” The term came to pass when economist and historian Bruce Yandle noticed that illegal alcohol bootleggers would finance efforts...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 8, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on The Blaze on September 8, 2015. In the famous children’s story, Jack and the Beanstalk, a young boy plants “magic” seeds and overnight a beanstalk grows as high as the sky. The obvious fantasy has a surprising real world counterpart through...
by Brian Garst | Sep 5, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Cayman Financial Review on August 19, 2015. At first glance the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project is difficult to understand. There has been no decline in corporate tax revenues in recent years, and nations already possess...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 3, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Hill’s Congress Blog on September 2, 2015. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has faced intense scrutiny over the past year thanks to the Lois Learner scandal involving the IRS targeting of groups because of their...