Month: February 2020

REPUBLICANS PASSED TAX CUTS — THEN PROFITED

REPUBLICANS PASSED TAX CUTS — THEN PROFITED

When the price of Apple stock hit a then-record high in October 2018, among the shareholders counting their gains were 43 Republicans in Congress, who collectively owned as much as $1.5 million worth of the tech giant’s shares. Apple’s stock jumped 37 percent in its...

Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook.

Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook.

In March 2008, as Facebook was speeding toward 100 million users and emerging as the next big tech company, it announced an important hire. Sheryl Sandberg was leaving Google to become Facebook’s chief operating officer. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, then 23 years...