May 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from CNBC: America’s millionaire population declined last year for the first time since the financial crisis, according to a new report. The population of U.S. millionaire households (households with investible assets of $1 million or more) fell to 5,134,000 from 5,263,000 in 2011, according to The Boston Consulting Group’s Global Wealth study. Total ...
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May 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: The U.S. government issued two downbeat economic reports Thursday, numbers that are sure to fuel the presidential campaign rhetoric as they signal jobs and the economy will remain top voter concerns going into the election. The Commerce Department reported the economy grew at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the first quarter ...
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May 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CBS News) Fox News is under fire for a campaign ad-style four-minute video highly critical of President Obama, which ran twice on the cable channel's morning program "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday morning. Co-host Gretchen Carlson introduced the video, saying "let's take a look back" at the president's term with the graphic "looking back at four ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Financial Times: Two of the best-known business dynasties in Europe and the US will come together after Lord Jacob Rothschild’s listed investment trust and Rockefeller Financial Services agreed to form a strategic partnership. RIT Capital Partners is to buy a 37 per cent stake in the Rockefeller’s wealth advisory and asset management group for ...
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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May 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from CNBC: It should not come as a surprise with unemployment over 8% that good paying jobs in manufacturing are harder than ever to land. At the Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama more than 20,000 people have applied for one of the 877 job openings. The surge of people applying may seem unusual, but it's ...
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May 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Reuters: Facebook Inc shares slid below $29 to a new low on Tuesday as nervous investors fled the company's shares, concerned about the social network's long-term business prospects and an initial offering price that proved too rich. Shares of the No. 1 social network fell 10 percent to an all-time low of $28.65, ...
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May 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from HUMAN EVENTS: A giant of the airline industry is weathering a quiet coup by labor groups, eyeing fatter checks and deeper dues. Big Labor wants to ground American Airlines. It's a familiar bout for much of American industry -- management and labor locked in strained negotiations amidst a weakened economy and softened bottom ...
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May 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Live Action says Planned Parenthood and other U.S. abortion providers are willing to assist in the termination of baby girls for pregnant women who choose abortion because they want to have baby boys. And the pro-life abortion watchdog says its video series and a new website will expose it all. “This ...
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May 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal: 49.1%: Percent of the population that lives in a household where at least one member received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2011. Cutting government spending is no easy task, and it’s made more complicated by recent Census Bureau data showing that nearly half of the ...
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May 24, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
COLUMBUS, Ohio—May 22, 2012— As the presidential election draws closer, voters from highly influential swing states will play an increasingly important role. A new survey by Manta, the largest online community dedicated entirely to small business, reveals that small business owners in those key states - Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, ...
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May 24, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from USA TODAY: The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Under those accounting practices, the government ran red ink last year equal to ...
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May 23, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD: The federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes monthly tallies for the employment-population ratio. That stat shows something rather straightforward: Among those who are living in America and are free to pursue employment, what percentage are employed? (The bureau excludes those who are under 16 years old, ...
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May 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from NY TIMES: THE retirement dream seems further away for a lot of baby boomers, and they appear to be responding to that by holding on to their jobs if they can. But that may have worsened the employment prospects for younger workers. Labor Department figures indicate that the percentage of workers over ...
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