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Economy

It’s tax time again. As freelancers, April 15th one of four big days we need to pay attention to from a business perspective. Why four? Because unlike our corporate counterparts, freelancers need to pay estimated taxes on a [...]

The biggest healthcare overhaul in decades has been endorsed recently by the US House of Representatives and the bill finally moves to the Senate, with 219 Democrats and 1 Republican voting for it. The lone Republican [...]

There are several helping natured people who give back to the needy. With so many unemployed residents, there is always need for a helping hand.  This helping hand is provided by the following businesses for the unemployed in [...]

The Group of Twenty (G-20) is a forum of central bank governors and finance ministers of the biggest industrialized and developing economies created to discuss key issues affecting the global economy.  The G-20 countries account for two-thirds of [...]

How difficult is saving money?  It’s not easy and there are very few people who understand the art of saving.  I often see people giving tips on saving money, but not many of them target youngsters and that’s [...]

If you think economics and CIA are poles apart, you cannot be more wrong. Financial knowledge is a must for the CIA, especially so in the current global crisis.  Producing daily economic intelligence briefing for the president of [...]

With the economy the way it is, there are so many of us who have been laid off and trying to find an alternative employment, and trying to make ends meet. If you are one of those even [...]

It’s no secret that the U.S. economy is in bad shape. The housing bubble burst. The stock market crashed. People lost a lot of their retirement savings. The federal government has been bailing out big industries like [...]

The rising unemployment woes are giving way to some cheer, thanks to the retail giant, considered to be an unscathed entity in the current financial turmoil – Wal-Mart Stores.

At a time when the major retailers, including Costco, [...]

Google, Intel, General Electric and Hewlett-Packard may lose tax credits and be forced to pony up more in the form of tax dollars to Uncle Sam.

If you’re wondering what these companies have in common – they all [...]