This video from The Common Sense Coalition tells in plain english what's wrong with America's mounting debt problem. Definitely worth watching and contrasting with both upcoming spectacles of the Republican and Democratic conventions: Unfortunately, it's a little light on the debt ... Read More
Archive for ‘Finance’
Tony Robbins, America’s top motivational speaker and one of the most perennially positive people, has uploaded several YouTube videos that warn about an impending economic collapse: At a London event on May 18, Robbins spoke about the importance of getting good ... Read More
On April 5, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act into law, after the bill sailed both the House and the Senate, 380-41 and 73-26, respectively. By the partisan standards of Congress, this initiative to democratize access ... Read More
CNBC reports that a blogger, The Daily Stag Hunt, tracked the number of times “laughter” was recorded by the Fed’s stenographer during the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meetings held from 2000 to 2006. In 2001, the FOMC averaged 17 guffaws per meeting. In 2006, there ... Read More
GE recorded $14 billion in profit in 2010 while paying zero federal taxes. That dodging trend has spread to the states, where many corporations have largely avoided paying state corporate income taxes despite growing profits. To gauge how much Fortune 500 ... Read More
In recent years, the Sisters of St. Francis, a Roman Catholic order, has become one of the most surprising groups of corporate activists in America. Working with other groups with similar goals, such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility ... Read More
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professor of risk engineering at New York University Polytechnic Institute and the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable writes: “It’s time for a fundamental reform: Any person who works for a company ... Read More
The Occupy Wall Street movement focused is attention on Manhattan’s financial district. But its impact extends far beyond Wall Street and has the potential to spur a whole new generation of start-ups capable of reshaping our financial system in radical ... Read More
