Walgreens: American Icon Considers Going Rogue

Over the past year there has been a sudden flurry of U.S. companies taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to avoid paying U.S. corporate taxes by reincorporating overseas. Called “inversion”, large companies such as Pfizer and Omnicom Group have already...

Corporate governance: the resurgent activist

The US Chamber of Commerce calls it “minoritarianism, the tyranny of a minority”. Dan Gallagher of the Securities and Exchange Commission says annual meetings have been “hijacked” by “corporate gadflies”. Leo Strine, the chief justice of Delaware, where most big US...

Can a Post Office Be a Bank?

There has been lots of controversy over the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to sell off dozens of post office properties across the country by a real estate firm chaired by the husband of the Senior U.S. Senator from California, presumably to raise money to save the...