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Why It's Impossible To Live On $500,000 Per Year - Gawker
The New York Times is absolutely obsessed with showing the world how wretched it is to earn just a half million dollars per year. Today it told the story with numbers. The Sunday Style story was the Times ' second on this topic in three days. Last ...
2009-02-08 05:57:00 -
UK small businesses unhappy with state help - Financial Times
State intervention to help small companies has either flopped or failed to take effect yet, according to a survey by the Federation of Small Businesses. Many small businesses told the trade association that banks had turned down their applications ...
2009-02-08 07:52:00 -
Obama faces tough week; stimulus, bailout on tap - Yahoo News
AFP/File – The dome of the US Capitol is seen at dusk in Washington, DC, in 2008. President Barack Obama's administration … WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plunges into a difficult test of his leadership this week, struggling to get a ...
2009-02-08 09:25:00 -
Obama's plan to save US economy hanging in the balance - Belfast Telegraph
With partisan rancour threatening to blow President Barack Obama's economic and financial agenda off course, he will today try to appeal over the heads of members of Congress and shore up public support for his $800bn stimulus plan and a second ...
2009-02-08 07:01:00 -
Ignition top wave for fifteenth straigth home win (OurSports Central)
(Plymouth, Mich., - February 8, 2009) - The Detroit Ignition (6-2) strengthened their hold on the XSL's top spot tonight with a 10-4 victory over the visiting Milwaukee Wave (6-4). The victory is the Ignition's 15th straight win at Compuware and fifth consecutive victory this season.
2009-02-08 06:43:38 -
'Bloated spending' ricochets on GOP (The Washington Times)
As senators prepare to vote Monday on an $827 billion stimulus plan, Democrats chastised the former majority party on Sunday's talk shows for presiding over six years of "bloated spending."
2009-02-08 06:47:53 -
Analysis: Spending more than $800 billion is the easy part (San Jose Mercury News)
WASHINGTON — The easy part is coming to an end. Ask just about anyone in Washington involved in the $800-billion-plus economic stimulus legislation churning its way through Congress, and they will tell you it is a milestone — but without question the less expensive, and politically and
2009-02-08 09:10:07 -
Sales tax collections up (Jackson Hole News & Guide)
A recently released state report shows Teton County sales tax collections from late fall outpaced collections from the same period in 2007.
2009-02-08 09:30:01 -
From foreclosed to flipped - Local contractors turn a buck while spiffing up neighborhoods (The Holland Sentinel)
Curtis Sall used to build about 50 new homes a year. He hasn’t built one in two years. Sall said he was forced to figure out a new way to make money. “What can we do in this market?” asked Sall, owner of Phoenix Real Estate & Construction Services, 6449 Wildcreek Drive in Laketown Township. “We can’t sell like we did ... We have to adapt.”
2009-02-08 10:19:15 -
Obama delays bailout plan to focus on stimulus (Contra Costa Times)
n Treasury secretary will delay details of bank bailout to concentrate on leveraging votes for stimulus plan
2009-02-08 10:22:48 -
Day Planner (The Augusta Chronicle)
- Monay: SuCCess Columbia County Style; 5-7 p.m., First Citizens Bank, 342 Baston Road, Furys Ferry Branch, Martinez; a members-only networking event; no charge to members; R.S.V.P. to Tammy Shepherd at (706) 651-0018.
2009-02-08 11:11:24 -
Should you refinance? (Albany Times Union)
It's a numbers game, really, a complex balance of percentages, payments and years.Jack Cunningham is just about ready to play. He's watching. And waiting. And he's almost set to pounce, just as soon as that most important of numbers ? the interest rate ? falls below 5 percent. The Delmar resident, owner of a four-bedroom home built in 1963, is hardly alone. The record-low interest rates of ...
2009-02-08 11:13:18 -
Housing stimulus is working: broker - The Age
The proportion of mortgages taken out by first time home buyers have doubled in Victoria since the expansion of the first time home owners grant in October, according to a report. Sales of mortgages to first time home-buyers jumped to 25.3% of total ...
2009-02-04 10:12:00 -
Bookstore chain owner (Yehey!)
ANTIPOLO CITY, Rizal: A landowner of a parcel of land along Sumulong Highway in Sitio Santa Cruz, Barangay Cruz, Antipolo City accused the owner of the National Book Store chain of land grabbing, to the point of dragging the names of First Gentleman Mike Arroyo and former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Ben-jamin Abalos Sr.
2009-02-08 10:22:25 -
Ohio Police Chief Proposes Fees Amid Tight Budget (WLWT-TV Cincinnati)
Authorities in at least one Ohio city are following Gov. Ted Strickland's lead with a proposal to increase fees as they face a tight budget.
2009-02-08 02:29:06