Returning to our hypothetical… We return to our top story in business news this evening. As pressure mounts on Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook surrounding the unclear nature of Apple’s upcoming dividend policy, new information has recently revealed that Cook may find...
Depository Receipts: Stealth Weaponry for the Commerce Wars Another reason that foreign investment by Sovereign Wealth Funds in the United States can be so difficult to accurately measure is the indirect means by which many of these funds can acquire shares of US...
Fuzzy Figures On Our Foreign Foes In April of 2011, the US Department of the Treasury released its Foreign Portfolio Holdings of US Securities as of June 30, 2010. While this annual report is more thorough than the similarly-focused Monthly Report of Foreign...
Threat Response As previously indicated, the American attitude toward foreign investment was generally a temperate one (absent energy investments or perceived war-time threats) until the aftermath of a major shift in post-WWII global wealth began to emerge in the...
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Are SWFs the New WMDs? As the name suggests, the primary characteristic of a Sovereign Wealth Fund is that it is a state-owned and operated investment vehicle. But among the many definitions for Sovereign Wealth Fund used in differing private...
Strange Currencies: America’s Varied, Volatile and Selective Affair(s) with Foreign Investment Although numerous regulations aimed at curbing Foreign Investment in the United States have emerged over the past 100 years, America is, quite literally, a creation of...
