Re: Slightly more patient capital?

2003-07-28 Thread Anders Schneiderman
Can you say a bit more? What kind of measures, and why do you think they've been useless? Thanks, Anders >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/03 03:03AM >>> UK has a stack-load of measures of this sort, without obvious effect. dd On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:49:46 -0400, "Max B. Sawicky" wrote: > > Yes b

Re: Slightly more patient capital?

2003-07-28 Thread dsquared
UK has a stack-load of measures of this sort, without obvious effect. dd On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:49:46 -0400, "Max B. Sawicky" wrote: > > Yes but I forget who. Somewhere I have a stack of > papers > from a conference on this. > > Capital gains rates, among other complexities, reflect > this pu

Re: Slightly more patient capital?

2003-07-22 Thread Anders Schneiderman
Hi Max, Thanks for the Burman cite; if you ever excavate the papers and find the name of the person, could you drop me a note? re: where I've been: working as an IT manager to pay off grad school bills & recover from political activism burnout. I'm now the "Information Manager" at SEIU, but I

Re: Slightly more patient capital?

2003-07-21 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Yes but I forget who. Somewhere I have a stack of papers from a conference on this. Capital gains rates, among other complexities, reflect this purported intention of encouraging buy and hold. Best recent book is Len Burman, "The Capital Gains Labyrinth." Where ya been? max It got me wonderi

Slightly more patient capital?

2003-07-21 Thread Anders Schneiderman
Hi All, I was cleaning out old files this weekend and ran across a number of articles from the late 80s about CEOs who were slash-and-burning their companies to prop up their stock prices. Some of the articles said that other industrialized countries such as Germany had rules that pushed inves