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"Here's a two-minute drill in soak-the-rich economics:
Millionaires Go Missing Maryland's fleeced taxpayers fight back. Source The Wall Street Journal Here's a two-minute drill in soak-the-rich economics: Maryland couldn't balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy. Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket, raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 6.25%. And because ci...
May 27, 2009, 8:49 am - konane

Woman Who Had 8 Babies Wants $2 Million From Oprah, Free Diapers
Monday, February 02, 2009 Fox News The mother of octuplets born in California last week is seeking $2 million from media interviews and commercial endorsements to help pay the costs of raising the children, the Times of London reported. Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert. It was learned last week that she already had six children before giving birth to eight more....
Feb 3, 2009, 4:36 am - truesee

Dollar's Power Sinks Worldwide
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Antique store owners in lower Manhattan, ticket vendors at India's Taj Mahal and Brazilian business executives heading to China all have one thing in common these days: They don't want U.S. dollars. Hit by a free fall with no end in sight, the once mighty U.S. dollar is no longer just crashing on currency markets and making life more expensive for American tourists and business people abroad; its clout is evaporating worldwide as foreign businesses and ind...
Mar 13, 2008, 3:52 pm - LOTTOMIKE

Pick-3 for Dummies Target Play Due Date(s) List No 01.2008
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Jan 2, 2008, 11:52 am - mjwinsmith

"CardPlayer.com Explains Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
Again, I don't have a dog in the fight because I have never gambled on the internet, period. But since this is such a hot-button issue here's something I dug up via FreeRepublic.com, search page with gambling as the subject. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=...
Jul 18, 2006, 11:34 am - konane

the minimum wage
If minimum wage is raised, who benefits? Congress has started a debate on raising the $5.15-an-hour minimum wage. The Senate rejected a big hike Wednesday. ATLANTA - Keisha Walker, for one, is happy that Congress is at least debating whether to raise the minimum wage. For her, boosting it to $7.25 would mean earning an extra $1 an hour - enough to pay for eight months of groceries or perhaps a few nights out. An office assistant for a low-income apartment complex in Atla...
Jun 22, 2006, 10:38 am - LOTTOMIKE

Firms Targeted on Immigration
Firms targeted on immigration 1 day after raids, feds vow charges for illegal hiring JIM MORRILL AND DANICA COTO jmorrill@charlotteobserver.com dcoto@charlotteobserver.com...
Apr 21, 2006, 1:54 pm - Tenaj

Nobel Winner on Bush's Tax Cuts
"Prized Comments" Last week the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Edward C. Prescott as the co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Currently the W. P. Carey Chair of Economics at Arizona State University and a senior monetary advisor at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, Dr. Prescott is known for his influential work on business cycles and economic development. The Nobel Com...
Oct 20, 2004, 2:20 pm - konane

Powerball and Match6 excel reworks
spent a few hours completely redesigning my powerball and match6 sheets.... issue 1. Replacing the INT function with ROUND for more accuracy. for example =INT(MEDIAN(C$2:C175)) becomes =ROUND((MEDIAN(C$2:C175)),0) in this way a result of 27.7 becomes 28 rather than 27. I did this to my entire set of spreadsheets... issue 2. Short Term trend data... copied the entire sort and draw stat pages and made new ones looking back...
Jun 6, 2004, 4:17 pm - hypersoniq

... "Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
Exceptionally informative description of The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis . Lots of live links. _______________ Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis Source American Thinker...
Oct 23, 2008, 8:22 pm - konane