The art of luring businesses Our correspondent reports on alleged gifts to Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu from a businessman on the run
Invisible Hands & Markets: IT PAYS TO STAY: Look both ways before cross
In the late nineties, the city of Toledo, Ohio faced a crisis. DaimlerChrysler, which ran Jeep factory there, announced plans to build new plant, but offered no guarantee that i would be built in Toledo. So the city and th state came a-courting. They promised Daimle a ten-year exemption from all property taxes offered hundreds of millions of dollars in ta credits, and bought out eighty-three homes an sixteen small businesses, in order to give th company more land. Crisis averted: Daimler i still building Jeeps in Toledo
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