People like Soros and Buffet exploit the inefficiencies and asymmetric information that government interference and regulations create, so it...
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2008/08/california-acti.html A California activist is trying to gather the 694,354 signatures needed...
Around the time of her promotion Obama slipped an earmark for around 3 million dollars to the hospital she worked at for a construction project.
Here the NYT issued a correction related to this idiotic story: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/pageoneplus/corrections.html Apparently the NYT...
Do you mean Emerald street in PB?
The difference is that if California doesn't like interest rate policy they can't withdraw from the United States and immediately start issuing...
It isn't a loophole. Most corporations are small businesses. Most small businesses don't have "profits" to be taxed, because the owners are...
I think you nailed it there. This isn't just an attack on Georgia. This is Russia's attempt to get control over another avenue through which...
Not saying US is in "great shape", just that we aren't even close to bankrupt, and in much better shape than most industrialized nations.
The US isn't even close to bankrupt. The total debt carried by US private citizens and the government isn't even close to the size of the assets...
More on UK health care: Hospitals infected with vermin
Another problem with Russia is their declining population. Don't they have one of the most rapidly falling populations in the world? In 20 years...
It's a good start. He needs to cut much more deeply and permanently, though. Oh, and he should also send state troopers to arrest Controller John...
I don't have a link, but I read an interesting article about a study some where in the last few weeks, where researchers tested kids around 3 to 5...
Thanks for another great call Atticus.
Calculating it as a percentage of production doesn't work either, because then you are omitting the service portion of the economy.
It's more likely the inability to delay gratification was a bigger factor than lack of financial education. (This is the typical character flaw...
No place without strong rule of law is ever going to become an "international financial center".
How does one buy japanese REIT's? Any ADR's?
When you get to this level of income there is a good chance that you are making the money from some sort of risk-taking activity, rather than an...
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