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David Cay Johnston

David Cay Johnston appears in the following:

Deductions and Loopholes

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Tax revenue has become central to the deficit debate in Washington right now. Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston, Reuters columnist, and author of the forthcoming book The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" and Other Tricks to Rob You Blind, explains those tax deductions and so-called loopholes that are up for debate and takes your calls on which ones you think make sense and which ones don't.

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Sick Economy

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston talks about what we can learn from the current economic upheaval, and how he thinks our economy can be nursed back to health. He’s most recently the author of Free Lunch.

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Remember the Savings & Loan Crisis?

Friday, October 03, 2008

Find out what the Savings & Loan crisis of the 1980s and 90s can teach us about our current financial problems. Investigative reporter David Cay Johnston is author of several books, including Free Lunch; Michael Santoli is Associate Editor of Barron’s magazine.

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Taxes Aren’t Fair

Monday, March 31, 2008

David Cay Johnston, investigative reporter from the New York Times, says that America’s tax system is incredibly unfair and needs to be changed quickly before the rich-poor gap widens even more. His new book is Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You ...

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Tax Time

Monday, March 31, 2008

The American tax system is deeply unfair, according to New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston; he says that the system must be changed to prevent the rich-poor gap from widening even further. We hear some Gen-X nostalgia for the 1990s. Soprano stage star Victoria Clark on her debut album. ...

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