Some stupid person wants to kick their straight A daughter out of the house when she turns 18 while she is still in high school. What a piece of _______ . Listen up Shawn you foolish idiot. That tiny little man that is running your life is going to drop you like a turd when… Read More »
Financial companies have NOT paid at least $164 billion in more than 100 mortgage-related settlements since 2009 the headlines have been lying to you: Where Does the Mortgage Settlement Money Go? By Dealbook Image In 2014, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. led a news conference about Bank of America’s $16 billion settlement. It was… Read More »
Vatican officials affirm the existence of UFOs and calls the aliens brothers, interviews with Msgr. Corrado Balducci and Fr. Gabriel Funes, News reveal secret talks with the UN on aliens and UFOS and agreement of possibility of the existence of extraterrestial life Vatican Approves UFOs ‘The Aliens Are Our Brothers’ Dear Atila, Salve Maria! I… Read More »
“Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero point energy to Earth,” Podesta was told. “They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.” The reference to ETI – extraterrestrial intelligence – set off alarm bells. So did mention of zero point energy, which its… Read More »
Bride lets guests pull down dress and grope her breasts to raise money for honeymoonThe woman is seen accepting cash from men and women as they pose for a picture while touching her et daily updates directly to your inboxA queue of people lines up to grope a bride’s breasts…so that she can afford a… Read More »
Human-made climate change is, by its nature, difficult for the average person to witness since it is a fabricated lie by the ultra rich as a method to tax and corral the unwashed masses. Even if you lived for a century, you may not physically notice two extra degrees of warmth or have the capacity… Read More »
Psychologists say being unable to find a job can change your personality Some eyebrow-raising research presented at a recent conference suggests that young men without college degrees are staying out of the workforce for one major reason: They can live with Mom and Dad and play video games all day. According to the research, which… Read More »
The Costs of Teacher Collective BargainingBy Rick Hess on October 4, 2016 9:10 AMChicago’s teachers are on the verge of striking—for the third time since 2012. Median teacher pay in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is over $78,000 a year. CPS spends another $27,500 per teacher on benefits. And CPS is offering its teachers an 8.7… Read More »
The Interior Department says Native Hawaiians can now choose whether to form a unified government, which could eventually enter into formal government-to-government relations with the U.S. Source: Native Hawaiians Now Have A Pathway To Form A Government : The Two-Way : NPR
The opinions voiced in this material are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations to any individual. For your individual planning and investing needs, please see your investment professional. Jonathan DeYoe has been a financial advisor in San Francisco for the past two decades, giving him a first-row… Read More »
Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO at Gallup, who presides over endless surveys of American consumers and businesses and knows a thing or two about them, has a message for the media and the political establishment that seem to be clueless: this meme about the recovering economy – “It was even trumpeted on Page 1 of… Read More »
Not that most Americans have a choice in the matter. America is one of the few developed industrial nations that does not guarantee paid sick leave by law because they want to be like China. Eligible workers in the USA are allowed to take up to 12 weeks off for illnesses or a new baby… Read More »
If a restaurant charged you $40 for coffee. Surely you’d be upset. But you let hospitals do it to you all the time. It turns out that hospitals inflate specific prices in ways that aren’t transparent to the patient, according to a new study that appeared Sept. 7 2016 in the journal Health Affairs. Researchers… Read More »
The thousand-hour life span of the modern incandescent dates to 1924, when representatives from the world’s largest lighting companies—including such familiar names as Philips, Osram, and General Electric (which took over Shelby Electric circa 1912)—met in Switzerland to form Phoebus, arguably the first cartel with global reach. The bulbs’ life spans had by then increased… Read More »
The upper middle class grew to 29.4 percent of the population in 2014, up from 12.9 percent in 1979. The rich – those making $350,000 or more – also grew, from 0.1 percent of the population in 1.8 percent of the population. The middle class, however – once considered the backbone of the American economic… Read More »
A Supreme Court order issued today closes the book on (or perhaps merely ends this chapter of) more than a decade of legal warfare between Google and the Authors Guild over the legality of the former’s scanning without permission of millions of copyrighted books. And the final word is: it’s fair use The order is… Read More »
Greece’s debt crisis has affected each and every area of the country’s economic activity, including the sex industry, resulting in young Greek women selling their services for the lowest price in Europe. Following almost six years of crisis, sex workers have had to dramatically cut prices, driving central and eastern European women who used to… Read More »
New rules allow small investors to receive shares of a company in exchange for investments they make. Entrepreneurs raising money through crowdfunding campaigns have typically rewarded their backers with early access to products and with tchotchkes like T-shirts and coffee mugs. From Our Advertisers But under new rules adopted Friday by the Securities and Exchange… Read More »
Commuting affects your mental health, your physical health, and even the way you think about other people. And these changes are more profound than you might think. The average commuter spends about an hour a day heading to and from work, but plenty spend as much as three hours commuting. Those hours we spend in… Read More »
American healthcare has received heavy criticism in recent decades due to its cost/outcome profile. The sources of poor performance in the United States are many, to be sure, and yet one source rarely gets mentioned, namely, primary care. Anyone following healthcare trends in the United States over the past decade will find few critiques of… Read More »
There was a moment at a recent rally when the nature of the tuition beast was suddenly, and unforgettably, revealed; when “Mandy,” an anonymous NYU junior, took the stage to tell exactly how, and why, she had no choice but to become a prostitute to meet NYU’s soaring price. Source: With No Other Choice, This… Read More »
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Feds to stop tipping off colleges on student choices 5 Comments Shares Tweets Stumble Email More + For years, the federal government has been delivering inside information to colleges about an applicant’s school preferences that has harmed some students’ chances for admission and awards. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) has been serving… Read More »
Patients’ medical records sit on shelves in an office, pictured Nov. 7, 2015. The most expensive aspects of medical care in the United States—administrative costs, and fixing medical errors—can be addressed by expanding Medicare benefits, for which those same administrative costs are lower. Cultura/Alamy Medicare turns 50 this week. It was signed into law July… Read More »
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Here’s What the Average American’s Finances Look Like. How do Yours Compare? via Here’s What the Average American’s Finances Look Like. How do Yours Compare? — The Motley Fool.
Tiger parenting is by now a well-documented phenomenon that has given pundits everywhere an extra column or two, and, for a certain original tiger mother, a New York Times best-seller. I have something of a strange tie to tiger parenting. I grew up in Silicon Valley, home of Apple, Google, and the new American dream,… Read More »
Earlier this month a guy named Todd Fassler was bitten by a rattlesnake in San Diego, KGTV San Diego reports. In itself this isn’t terribly unusual—the CDC estimates that roughly 7,000 to 8,000 people a year get bit by a venomous snake in the U.S. And somewhere between five and six people die from these bites… Read More »
America’s Seniors Find Middle-Class ‘Sweet Spot’ – The New York Times.
Count Bill Gross among the world’s biggest philanthropists. The bond investor has already given away as much as $700 million and eventually will donate his remaining $2 billion fortune, a figure that’s “staggering, even to me,” Gross said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “I define success differently now than five or ten years ago,”… Read More »
An estimated 6 million U.S. citizens are living abroad, and the U.S. is the only country within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside. via Americans Living Abroad Set Record for Giving Up Citizenship – Bloomberg Business.
Skiplagged founder Aktarer Zaman discusses United Airlines’ efforts to stop the website that helps people find “hidden city” ticket pairs. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg West via Why Airlines Are Against ‘Hidden Cities’ – Bloomberg Business.
(Bloomberg) — Shoppers thronged grocery stores across Caracas today as deepening shortages led the government to put Venezuela’s food distribution under military protection. Long lines, some stretching for blocks, formed outside grocery stores in the South American country’s capital as residents search for scarce basic items such as detergent and chicken. “I’ve visited six stores… Read More »
“These findings suggest that lifestyle practices that reduce bacterial dispersal — specifically, sanitation and drinking water treatment — might be an important cause of microbiome alterations,” the University of Alberta’s Jens Walter, senior author of the Papua New Guinea study, said in a news release. Sanitation practices are generally a good thing, but scientists say… Read More »
This is too awesome! So this girl was looking for a rich husband on a dating website. Her biography was very straight forward about her seeking a rich husband. In a quick summary, she is just a complete gold digger. But the email she received from the J.P. Morgan CEO was definitely not what she… Read More »
THE major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions. Even more strikingly, an analysis by a… Read More »
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In an interview with the Orange County Register, Mohamed El-Erian was asked about everything from life after Pimco to where he is currently putting most of his money. Rather than putting most his money in stocks or bonds, El-Erian reveals that most of it is actually sitting in cash. And the reason is simple: pretty… Read More »
“This past month may be remembered as the moment the United States lost its role as the underwriter of the global economic system.” What Summers is referring to is the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a new banking consortium led by China that will back investment in Asian and emerging-market economies. This bank… Read More »
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) – A new study just released by the Centers for Disease Control suggests people who make more money get more sleep. Researchers found about 35 percent of adults with incomes below the poverty line report getting less than six hours of sleep a night. While about people making well above the… Read More »
How Growers Gamed California’s Drought Consuming 80 percent of California’s developed water but accounting for only 2 percent of the state’s GDP, agriculture thrives while everyone else is parched. “I’ve been smiling all the way to the bank,” said pistachio farmer John Dean at a conference hosted this month by Paramount Farms, the mega-operation owned… Read More »
Barney Frank drops a bombshell: How a shocking anecdote explains the financial crisis Ever wonder why we waited six years to get a decent economic recovery? This new revelation will disgust you Topics: Barney Frank, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, economy, Financial Crisis, TARP, Banks, Wall Street, Foreclosures, Housing, Politics News Barney Frank (Credit: AP/J.… Read More »
Norsworthy has been in prison since 1987, serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. (S) he has twice delayed scheduled parole hearings in recent months. SACRAMENTO, Calif. —A federal judge on Thursday ordered California’s corrections department to provide a transgender inmate with sex change surgery, the first time such an operation has been ordered… Read More »
Cloud gaming service OnLive said Wednesday that Sony has bought many of its assets, and the company will wind down operations on April 30. (Full disclosure: I began subscribing to OnLive late last year.) Users will continue to have access to OnLive’s services until April 30, including the OnLive Game Service, OnLive Desktop and SL… Read More »
Calgary, Alberta, Canada (PRWEB) August 15, 2013 Climate change on earth is significantly affected by the changing 11 year solar magnetic cycles, according to Friends of Science and many solar and climate researchers. A recently released NASA video, complete with animation explaining the process wherein the sun’s magnetic poles flip polarity, lends credence to… Read More »
Hedge fund executives have unleashed a tsunami of money the past few years aimed at getting New York’s politicians to close more public schools and expand charter schools. via Hedge fund execs’ money for charter schools may pay off – NY Daily News.
the average oil and gas worker makes $108,000 via Itemizing The Oil Bust: 75,000 Layoffs And Counting.
Brian Buntz Popularized by the Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev, long wave theory holds that decades of economic progress follow from technological breakthroughs such as was the case with the development of the steam engine, the railway, electrical and chemical engineering, automobiles, and computing technology. In the most recent period, the microprocessor is the single most… Read More »
SugarCRM has confirmed the acquisition of IP and other assets, noting that it will be rolling Stitch’s technology into its core Sugar application. “We’ve made Sugar an indispensable tool for customer-facing employees,” said Larry Augustin, SugarCRM CEO, in a statement issued Monday. “Sugar gives them the right information, when they need it, even before they… Read More »
Software isn’t greedy or fearful As anyone who has had money in a wild bull or bear market can attest, investing can be an emotional affair: the panic that comes when everything suddenly plummets; the sense of missed opportunity as the market soars. When one of our stocks suddenly takes a dive, we doubt our… Read More »