Dean Baker explains how international capital flow (capital flight and repatriation) is just a matter of switching account balances. There is no "cross-border" transfer of funds in "bringing back" dollars earned abroad. This is what bringing money back to the United States means. Under the old tax law companies often attributed legal control of profits to foreign subsidiaries, so that they could defer paying taxes on this money. However the money was often actually held in the United...
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