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- Obamas Declare $2.66 Million in Earnings (BBC News)
"US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle earned $2.66m (£1.78m) in 2008, according to annual tax returns released by the White House." 04-09
- Consumer Price Index and Other Leading Indicators (ACCRA)
Provides the CPI and other leading indicators of the health of the economy, such as increase or decrease on Unemployment Rate, Payroll Employment, Average Hourly Earnings, PPI, ECI, Productivity, and the U.S. Import Price Index. 12-02
- Education Programs for Understanding Causes of War and Peace (UnitedforPeace.org - Star Tribune - Ford and Sternberg)
"As antiwar activists are again taking to the streets to protest a possible war with Iraq, their ranks include a growing number of protesters who are earning college degrees in peacemaking." 12-02
- 06-03-04 Men Make More Than Women (CNN News)
"Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, said the disparity is in part due to women who interrupt their careers to have kids at a time while men continue to climb the salary ladder. When these mothers return to work, they often can't make up the loss in earnings, she said."
"Discrimination also may be a factor, specifically against mothers, Strober added. 'If you are a primary caretaker of children, it's very difficult to live up to the kind of work requirements that exist for professional work,' she said."
"Hartmann said stronger enforcement of equal opportunity laws and increasing access to education and training in high-paying fields in which women are underrepresented are keys to income equity." 6-04
- -Ensuring the Right to Vote (TimetoVote.net)
"Executives can take a number of practical steps to help ensure that their employees do not have to choose between earning a living, raising a family and exercising their right to vote." 9-04
- Pros and Cons of Bush Proposal (Wikipedia.org)
"Bush's proposal, according to its supporters, would compensate young future retirees for needed cuts in money spent on benefits in the future, and thus spare a "crisis" in Social Security, which would occur when it exhausts its "trust fund" surplus in 2042, according to the SSA or 2052, according to the CBO. Each worker's benefit would be the combination of a minimum guaranteed benefit and the return on the private account. The proponents' argument is that high returns and ownership of the private accounts would allow lower spending on the guaranteed benefit, but possibly without any net loss of income to beneficiaries. The savings to the government would come through a mechanism called a "clawback", where profits from private account investment would be taxed, or a benefit reduction meaning that individuals whose accounts underperformed the market would receive less than current benefit schedules, although, even in this instance, the heirs of those who die early could receive increased benefits even if the accounts underperformed historical returns."
"Opponents, citing the CBO analysis, argue that the upfront borrowing costs mean that this plan would not produce a lower total deficit in the Social Security fund against current law until around 2030. The expected savings projected do not include interest on this debt nor the benefit of paying back the debt in cheaper (inflated) dollars, nor is the expected borrowing figured into their GDP and productivity assumptions in the model. Opponents also dispute the economic projections used, pointing out that they require low economic growth, and still have high stock market returns, which would require that stock price/earnings ratios reach historically unsustainable levels of 70, or corporate earnings/revenue ratios to triple over the course of the next 70 years. Neither of these events has happened in the course of modern economic history, and therefore, they argue, the projections which are used to support the plausibility of the privatization plans are contradictory." 2-05
- Poll: Public Favors Removing the Cap for the Rich (ABC News)
"By a nearly 4-1 margin, the public — 75 percent to 20 percent — opposes 'reducing guaranteed benefits for future retirees' [as proposed by President Bush]. Language counts: Opposition drops when the change is more precisely described as one in which 'benefits increase at a slower rate.' But the public's still opposed, in this formulation by 57 percent to 37 percent."
"Other changes are also broadly unpopular. Americans by 2-1 oppose increasing the Social Security tax rate, by 2-1 oppose raising the retirement age to receive full benefits to 68 from the current 67, and by nearly 2-1 oppose further trimming the benefits paid to people who retire early."
"Much more popular is the notion of taking more from the better-off. By 56 percent to 40 percent, the public favors eliminating the cap on annual earnings that are subject to Social Security taxes, now $90,000. Interestingly, this is supported by a 20-point margin even in households with total incomes greater than $100,000 a year." 3-05
- -01-18-06 Panic Selling Hits Global Markets (CNN News)
"A massive sell-off sparked by a criminal investigation of a high-profile Internet company and weaker-than-expected U.S. tech earnings forced the Tokyo Stock Exchange to suspend trading in the world's second-largest market." 01-06
- -03-13-06 Smart Pricing by Google (JenSense.com)
"Google has said very little publicly about Smart Pricing secret sauce which results in some publishers earning more money for a click while others earn less (and yes, the advertiser will also pay less accordingly)." 03-06
- 02-01-07 Exxon Sets U.S. Record With Annual Profit of $39.5 Billion (MSNBC News)
"Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company — $39.5 billion — even as earnings for the last quarter of 2006 declined 4 percent." 02-07
- -07-31-07 US Credit Woes Ripple Across the Globe (Christian Science Monitor)
"It's a good thing that the world economy had a head of steam going into this summer, because it now faces financial headwinds made in the USA."
"On Monday, shares of the German industrial bank IKB plummeted as the bank announced its earnings would be hit hard by the rising default rate of American subprime home loans." 07-07
- -08-11-07 Subprime Contagion Is Spreading (Bloomberg.com)
"The $2 trillion market for mortgages not backed by government- sponsored agencies is at a standstill. That's just the beginning. Other types of mortgages are suffering. So are firms and banks that package the debt for investors. The ripples were felt in Europe and Asia, where central banks offered cash to banks amid a credit crunch. And some corporations, from countertop makers to railroads, are blaming the mortgage meltdown and housing slump for earnings that fell short of analysts' estimates." 08-07
- -12-05-08 The 10 Cars that Sank Detroit (U.S. News)
"The global financial crisis is suffocating the Detroit automakers, but the problems at General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler have been festering for years—even when the mighty "Big Three" were earning billions. Aging factories, inflexible unions, arrogant executives and shoddy quality have all damaged Detroit. Now, with panicky consumers fleeing showrooms, catastrophe looms: Without a dubious federal bailout, all three automakers face the prospect of bankruptcy." 12-08
- -02-15-09 Education Provisions of the Stimulus Plan (U.S. News)
"Under the stimulus bill, starting next year, taxpayers earning up to $80,000 (or $160,000 for joint filers) will be able to reduce their tax bills dollar for dollar for the first $2,000 of tuition and books." 02-09
- -04-14-09 Editorial: The Banking Crisis Is Over (Time.com)
"What banks are earning from the difference between the cost of capital and the income from lending is now great enough for the banking system to be self-sustaining again."
"What will happen at this point is that bank stocks will not go up much more, but they will not dive sharply down either. There is enough evidence in comments from the CEOs of Citi and B of A and in the Wells Fargo earnings to show that the idea that banks are insolvent and probably in need of nationalization is no longer part of the consideration of how the problems with the system will be settled." 04-09
- -04-17-09 Banks Have a "Good" Week (Time.com)
"This week's positive results, which had been anticipated by a month-long rally in bank stocks, are certainly better than last year's multi-billion-dollar losses. But bank earnings are extremely sensitive to assumptions about the future, and whether the banks are actually on the road to recovery will depend to a great extent on how the economy performs in coming months." 04-09
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