Crystal Ball: Send Us Your Prediction for Bank of America’s Share Price
Each week, The Wall Street Journal’s Crystal Ball feature invites readers to test their prediction skills. Send your answer to the latest question to crystalball@wsj.com by midnight EDT Sunday, with your full name, city, state and phone number.
America's Cup wants 10K free hotel rooms
If San Diego hopes to attract the 2017 America's Cup, local hotels are going to have to unlock thousands of their doors for free. As part of its offer to potentially come to San Diego in 2017, the America's Cup has requested 10,000 free hotel room nights ...
‘America’s Got Talent’ spoilers: Mike Super, Wendy Liebman among wild-card picks
The “America’s Got Talent” judges have made their wild card picks official, and we have to say that there are at least some good choices in here. However, there is also one or two that have us somewhat curious what the strategy was. We begin here ...
Bank of America’s big fine
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Bank of America settles crisis-era mortgage cases with the U.S. government once a week or so. But the one this week, at $16.65 billion, is the big one. That is, it’s the biggest settlement to date, eclipsing not only ...
Corporate Tax Rates around the World
Chad and the United Arab Emirates -- these are the only two countries with top marginal corporate tax rates higher than the United States. And at 39.1 percent, the corporate tax rate in America is the highest corporate tax rate among the 34 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation ...
Hot sun, cold beer: Great Bay Distributors does it right!
Hot summer months – especially FLORIDA summer months – make the challenge of keeping cold beer cold a difficult one. That’s especially true if you are storing, cataloguing, sorting, packing and shipping literally acres of the stuff. Nobody wants their beer sitting in an oven as it moves through the ...
Голод в Америке: каждый седьмой зависит от продуктовых банков
В целом 25% семей военнослужащих – около 620 000 домохозяйств – нуждаются в помощи продовольствием, сообщается в исследовании «Голод в Америке» организации Feeding America (сеть, объединяющая 200 продуктовых банков). Результаты тревожны», — говорит руководитель Feeding America Боб Айкен . «Они говор ...
FUGA DALLA SVIZZERA...
lettera di un amico da un noto paradiso fiscale ...è, oltre che imprenditore, anche un profondo e attento conoscitore delle tematiche fiscali italiane e svizzere.... La sua non è la solita email di incompetenti ma una attenta riflessione che mi trova perfettamente in sintonia... LA SVIZZERA HA DECIS ...
Back to Work: Design Still Gives Me Hope
Pioneer Place courtesy: sussmanprejza.com The return from our three-week holiday in France and the United Kingdom has been more disorienting than usual. First, we had to give up wine at lunch! Then we gave up wine on school nights. Being self-employed means I can’t travel without internet access at ...
Fantasy Footie, Currently Reading and Books on the Way!
In my last Blog, I mentioned that I was gearing up for the Premiership Football season and making my picks in my Fantasy Football team for the first weekend's games. Well, we're just about ready for Weekend 2, so let's take a brief look back at how I did weekend 1. So far there are 2,946,451 partici ...
Work / Life Balance – I’ve got it right, am I mad to think about changing it!!!?
I have a job that I love :) It is a job I fell into by accident 5 years ago almost to the day. I actually received a 5 years service award today – £50 love to shop vouchers. I had been travelling around America after a tough few years personally and coming home in November 2008 just as the recession ...
Democracy Soiled: The Case against the US Ruling Class
Reading the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News opinion poll is like glimpsing a snapshot of an alien civilization. Surely these are not the opinions of the flag-waving, beer-guzzling US masses depicted on television and by the rest of popular culture. Surely this is not the world view of the self-a ...
Conservative Read
Conservative Read The origin of specious thinking: public schools The Myth of the Palestinian Underdog Eric Holder is Black? ‘I Am the Attorney General… but I’m Also a Black Man’ CDC: 30 States Plus D.C. Have Requested Help with Possible Ebola Cases Ferguson: No Justice in the American Police State ...
Making Our Cities "Just Green Enough"
Waterway Greenway Perspective 2 courtesy of the blog Space Observatory. The cycle of gentrification is all too common in America as redevelopment improves amenities and the number of people choosing urban life over the suburbs grows. A neighborhood with low average incomes and lax economic activity ...
