In the blogs: Help from Uncle Sam

The audit letter; race-conscious policies; long-short strategy; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The audit letter; race-conscious policies; long-short strategy; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
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During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump accused Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of waging a “war on energy” and promised at the Economic Club of New York to get “gasoline below $2 a gallon.” This week, with gas above $4 a gallon, his EPA proposed loosening Biden-era methane rules for oil and gas producers. The…
Key insight: The Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision stopped just short of endorsing a rate hike in December, but noted that price pressures are broadening beyond imports, energy and data center components. Expert quote: “Today, I am seeing signs that inflation pressures are persisting, while labor market conditions appear to be firming. This indicates…
As the Union government grants voluntary retirement of services (VRS) to Dinesh Pant, managing director (MD) of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), the number of serving MDs in the company has fallen to two. The state-owned insurance giant has four MD posts, apart from the managing director and chief executive officer (MD &…
Key Points Shares of Figma (NYSE: FIG) were taking a dive last month as part of a broader pullback in software stocks amid ongoing fears of AI disruption, especially after Anthropic launched a competing product, Claude Design, in April. Despite that decline, there was some positive analyst chatter for Figma, and the stock stabilized in…
John Williams, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said Tuesday that he doesn’t see additional rate hikes in 2027 after…