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The Frightening Transfer Of Taxpayer Info To A Powerful Force

June 10, 2014 • Top Story • 2411

It may be too late for anyone to save Lois Lerner from herself and this won’t help. Newly released, confidential emails outline a startling connection directly between the IRS and Department of Defense. Information gleaned from a Eric Holder subpoena show the IRS was sending the DoJ information about certain nonprofit groups and the personal information of their management for review and possible legal action. Oddly, nothing within the IRS’ internal reviews showed anything was amiss, except for the fact that these groups were backing conservative politicians. This sort of backroom scrutiny is dangerous and wholly un-American.

Links

-> Report: IRS Sent Database Containing Confidential Taxpayer Information to FBI

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> 3 Major U.S. Airlines Fight to Cancel Cheaper International Travel

-> World Stock Markets Up Near Record High; Low Yields Help

-> Venezuelan Prostitutes Earn More Selling Dollars Than Sex

-> The Revolution Will Not Be Monetized

-> Why Being Ignored By Your Boss Is Worse Than Bullying

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We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.

” Calvin Coolidge ”
Bending Over Backwards And Taking It Is The Name Of The Game

June 9, 2014 • Top Story • 1591

Flexibility is key in today’s economy, just look around. The number of freelancing, contract workers who string together multiple part time jobs to make ends meet is the new ideal. More and more people are becoming independent workers and giving rise to the ‘Flex’ Economy. While this new mindset has freed many to pursue work they truly enjoy, but it has driven 37% of the labor force to the sidelines. Many workers have been flexible, but even more have been broken.

Links

-> Rise of The ‘Flex’ Economy

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> Treasury Discloses Limits on Bank-Data Sharing With Spy Agencies

-> 37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High

-> Mexico’s Oil Industry Is Finally, Mercifully Ready To ‘Open For Business’

-> With $12 Billion Raised Uber’s Valuation Skyrockets To $17 Billion

-> Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet, But You Can Invest

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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labour and effort, enterprise and new activity.

” William Taft ”
Penny For Your Thoughts on Regulation…

June 6, 2014 • Top Story • 1859

Regulations in this country are a hidden counter force that has held the American Dream down and sucked vital money out of the ‘Free Market.’ Here are five startling facts about regulations in the US: 1) There are more than 1 million regulatory restrictions that impose a significant burden on the economy. 2) The federal regulatory state costs the economy an additional $1.86 trillion annually. 3) Federal regulations amount to a hidden tax of almost $15,000 per household. 4) Every year, more than 3,600 new regulations hit the books—a rate of nearly ten new rules per day. 5) If it were its own country, the federal regulatory state would be the world’s tenth-largest economy—larger than that of Canada, Italy, or India.

Links

-> Cashing In On Regulators

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> ECB Imposes Negative Interest Rate

-> Speculation Builds on Michelle Obama Senate Run

-> CVS Doubles Up Walgreen In Retail Clinics As Obamacare Patients Seek Care

-> Using Nostalgia to Market Your Business

-> What Leonardo da Vinci Can Teach You About Writing Killer Cover Letters

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When The American Dream Became A Nightmare

June 5, 2014 • Top Story • 2075

Hope and change is the platform President Obama ran on, and a change to the hope Americans hold dear has been achieved. Currently, six in ten Americans think the American dream is unattainable. It used to be that we thought our kids would be the next great generation, they’d have a beautiful home, white picket fence, two cars and apple pie. But not anymore, for the first time in a LONG time, American no longer think the next generation will be better off. Due to the runaway gravy train of backroom deals and wealthy special interests in government, the American dream has become a nightmare, full of debt, unemployment, and mediocrity. Maybe there is a chance things will be better, keep dreaming.

Links

-> The American Dream Is Out Of Reach

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> Renminbi Use Surges In Home Of US Dollar

-> Hillary Clinton’s Goldman Sachs Problem

-> Emptying Gitmo Was Obama’s Goal, Bergdahl Was Just His Political Cover

-> Lessons From Inside Facebook’s Marketing Strategy

-> 10 Ways Running a Business Has Changed in the Past 20 Years

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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

” Rand Paul ”
House Poor America

June 4, 2014 • Top Story • 2467

Things are rough for Americans these days and it shows in our housing costs. New reporting shows that half of Americans can no longer afford their mortgage or rent payments. Not good news for a nation that already leads the world in debt. But on the bright side, American’s will have to pay more for energy. Thank you EPA!

Links

-> Half of Americans Can’t Afford Their House

-> Here’s How Much The Average Money Manager At A Hedge Fund Made Last Year

-> Obamacare Update: Now EVEN MORE States Report Double-Digit Premium Hikes

-> UAW Raises Dues 25% for 1st Time in 47 Years

-> 60% Of Americans Believe The American Dream Is Out Of Reach

-> Apple Flirts With 52-Week High As Stock Split Looms

-> One Simple Way to Reduce Employee Turnover

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Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the common man. It has raised the average standard of living to a height never dreamed of in earlier ages. It has made accessible to millions of people enjoyments which a few generations ago were only within the reach of a small elite.

” Ludwig von Mises ”
The Death of Summer Lovin’

June 3, 2014 • Top Story • 1577

What is more American than apple pie? It’s working that crappy summer job to pay for date night with the cute classmate you’ve been pining after all year, hopefully leading to some summer lovin’. But that ideal is dying on the vine, thanks to an awful job market, a market that has seen carefree summer jobs become the staple of too many families, eking by on the minimum. This is the what happens when mortals meddle and try to control the free market, it destroys the American dream.

Links

-> Summertime Blues: Teen Unemployment in Major U.S. Cities Tops 50 Percent

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> NSA Leaks: Your Selfie Is Filed Away In a Massive Government Database

-> USDA Creating $1.9 Million Research Center Devoted to Changing American’s Food Choices

-> Jimmy Page’s Stairway to Business Heaven

-> The New Rules of Customer Service (Infographic)

-> The Best of Apple’s WWDC 2014

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