Daniel Gross points out that part of the reason that the American stock markets are going up even though unemployment is rising and the real economy suffering is because multinational corporations headquartered in the U.S. are experiencing strong sales abroad:---It could be that the notion the stock market is an accurate gauge of the domestic economy's temperature is outdated.---The fact that companies based in America are raking in profits from sales abroad is good for American workers, right? No. Gross points out that American workers don't benefit because a lot of the goods sold abroad by American multinationals are made abroad:---Well, at least the multinationals are paying a good chunk of taxes into the American economy, right? Not exactly. The Washington Post notes:--- In 2005, about 28 percent of large corporations paid no taxes... Dorgan and Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) requested the report out of concern that some corporations were using "transfer pricing" to reduce their tax bills. The practice allows multi-national companies to transfer goods and assets between internal divisions so they can record income in a jurisdiction with low tax rates... [Senator] Levin said: "This report makes clear that too many corporations are using tax trickery to send their profits overseas and avoid paying their fair share in the United States."