Tag Archives: pricing

Meta v. IRS: A Multi-Billion Dollar Reckoning

Mark Estrada – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is deploying new valuation strategies to target Meta for profit shifting and underpayment of taxes. The IRS is seeking nearly sixteen billion dollars in tax deficiencies, all related to Facebook’s—now Meta’s—2010 use of an international tax framework called the double Irish—a now-abolished ownership arrangement that routed profits […]

The World Is Running Out of Cheap Oil — And Markets Are Panicking

David Somoza-Cano — On the morning of March 12, 2026, United Airlines stock plummeted 33% in a single trading session. Crude oil surged past $100 a barrel. Tankers were burning in the Persian Gulf. Unexpectedly, Washington authorized the sale of Russian oil that has been sanctioned for years. This is not a routine market correction. […]