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The Middle Class Is Bottoming Out

April 23, 2014 • Top Story • 1606

This is the most frightening data set in a long time. New research on after-tax middle-class incomes around the world is out and it paints a sad picture of this once unstoppable country. The American middle class is being outpaced in wealth by almost everyone, especially Canada, Britain, Ireland, and the Dutch. Those four nations have seen double digit growth wealth growth of their middle class since the year 2000, US on the other hand, less half of one percent growth. We’ve also seen an undeniable decline in economic freedoms in the same span, maybe there’s a correlation there?

Links

-> The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest

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

-> IRS Awards Bonuses to 1,100 Employees Who Owe Back Taxes

-> Social Security Employee Accused Of Taking $55,000 In Kickbacks From D.C. Disabled

-> Feds to Award $1 Million for Contraception, Sterilization of Wild Horses, Burros

-> The Case Against “Busy” And The Art Of Sitting Still

-> 4 Good Reasons Why Small Businesses are Dropping Health Insurance

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Cashing In On Oversight

April 22, 2014 • Top Story • 1513

Remember those whiny folks pounding drums, demanding more regulations, and for bankers to pay thier fair share…Occupy something or other? Well they missed the mark, turns out the bankers on Wall Street aren’t making all the big money, it’s the regulators. Yep, the government backed pencil pushers who define policy and oversee the banking industry average more money per head than those they oversee. Who would have thought the Occupy folks would have missed that?

Links

-> Guess Who Makes More Than Bankers: Their Regulators

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

-> For Many Americans, ‘Temp’ Work Becomes Permanent Way of Life

-> STUDY: Fuels From Corn Waste Not Better Than Gas

-> Obama Calls for Highest Sustained Taxation in U.S. History

-> Everyone In America Should Care About What Chipotle And Netflix Are Going To Do Next

-> How The Most Successful Brands Dominate Instagram, And You Can Too

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The Myth Of The Income Inequality Caused By Capitalism

April 21, 2014 • Top Story • 1791

Behold the ultra elite, 1%! So mysterious how they become so wealthy….or it’s actually Capitalism at work. A new study out of Cornell breaks down the evil cycle of wealth and it’s pretty enlightening. The finding show that 12% of the population will spend at least one year in the top 1%, while 73% will spend at least a year in the top 20%. And this is all because Capitalism gives everyone an opportunity to innovate some new idea and breach the upper echelon of society.

Links

-> From Rags to Riches to Rags

-> 10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning

-> The Average Stock Is More Expensive Now Than It Was At The Peak Of The Dotcom Bubble In 2000

-> Gallup: 14% of Americans Couldn’t Last a Week Financially If They Lost Job

-> New Bill Aims to Curb Overzealous Photoshopping; Because There Nothing Else to Do in DC

-> How to Track Your Employees’ Productivity Without Becoming Big Brother

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

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The ‘Media Circus’ Has a New Ringleader…

April 18, 2014 • Top Story • 1392

…and it is Jon Stewart. Jay Carney told reporters that President Obama’s interview in 2012 with Jon Stewart, just before the election, was the toughest the President has done. Let that sink in. When asked what he thought that demonstrated to him, Carney had some well rehearsed statement about Stewart’s intellect and ability to reach young people, blah, blah, blah. But what that really tells US, is the mainstream media is a waste of space. So far gone are the days when real reporters caught Presidents doing shady things the darkness of DC hotels. Now it’s a circus act aimed at entertaining, not informing.

Links

-> Carney: Obama’s Toughest Interview in 2012 Was With Comedian Jon Stewart

-> 10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning

-> Emails Show Corruption At Heart Of Administration

-> One Simple Step Toward Making Politics Less Horrifying

-> Why Are U.S. Oil Imports Falling?

-> Hackers Warn About Future Threats: How To Guard Against The Next Heartbleed

-> Flaws of The Family Business Model

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Regulating As An Art Form

April 17, 2014 • Top Story • 1294

The President gets a lot of flak for failing to deliver, but there is one area where he is excelling: regulations. Last year DC set a new single year record by adding 26,417 pages new pages of regulation, a feat never before seen. When pundits and wiseguys ask why the economy is moving so slowly, just look at the glut of the Federal Register. At 79,311 pages, it is estimated that the economic impact of compliance is $1.9 trillion annually. That’s a lot of green to comply with a lot of red.

Links

-> By At Least One Measure, Obama Surpasses All of His Predecessors

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

-> EPA Making Move for ‘Biggest Land Grab in the History of the World’

-> 86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers

-> The 50 Best Employers In America

-> A Closer Look: 5 Crucial Phases of Startup Growth

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Hiding In Plane Sight

April 16, 2014 • Top Story • 1530

A little known fact of census manipulation will mean great things for Obamacare. At the Census Bureau, it’s been business as usual for almost thirty year years, but then came the Affordable Care Act, now things are changing. It’s not just a single change too, it’s a conveniently timed complete revamp which will make it impossible to accurately determine changes in healthcare and insurance information, such as enrollment. The numbers don’t lie, unless you make them.

Links

-> Census Survey Revisions Mask Health Law Effects

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

-> Tax Revenues Hit Record for First Half of FY 2014

-> Soaring Food Inflation Full Frontal: Beef, Pork And Shrimp Prices Soar To Record Highs

-> CBO Dire Debt Warnings Show Nation’s Democrat Future

-> Five Things to Know About the Feds Obsession With Inflation

-> 9 Things People Just Don’t Get About Entrepreneurs

-> PRESENTING: The 100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter

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Can Silicon Valley Save Capitol Hill?

April 15, 2014 • Top Story • 1329

There is a problem with politics, it isn’t scaling right. For too long, the bureaucracy in this country has vastly outgrown the voting public’s ability to watch or understand what is going on in the halls of Congress. And it’s not just on Capitol Hill, it’s at city hall, in county offices, on school boards, everywhere people with ‘power’ congregate to decide how to govern US. But one Silicon Valley start-up wants to change that with old fashioned American ingenuity. Quietly swelling Brigade Media would like to scale up the ability for average Americans understanding of who our politicians really are, using technology to fill in the gaps, and let’s hope they succeed.

Links

-> Silicon Valley Startup Seeks to Repair U.S. Politics

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

-> Obama has Proposed 442 Tax Hikes Since Taking Office

-> Food Stamp Recipients Outnumber Women Who Work Full-Time

-> Qihoo, Tesla Top 5 Techs With Stunning Earnings Gains

-> I Listened To Music Based On Neuroscience To Help Focus — And My Productivity Soared

-> A 3-Day Weekend…Every Weekend? This Company Makes It Happen

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Head For The Hills

April 14, 2014 • Top Story • 2294

On the eve of Tax Day, let’s ponder why more companies are leaving US for foreign lands. For starters, our extremely complex tax laws make it easy to pack up shop and head over seas through a process called ‘inversion.’ Look at Walgreens, they are a big time player in retail pharma, yet they are exploring a very enticing deal that would save them saving millions in tax revenue by moving to Europe. The confusing laws that will keep so many of US up tonight and tomorrow scrambling to pay our ‘fair share’ to Uncle Sam, are the same confusing laws that entice companies like Walgreens to head for the hills, maybe if things were simpler, it would be harder spend our money on a federal level?

Links

-> Walgreens Urged To Leave US To Gain Tax Benefit

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

-> EPA Concedes: We Can’t Produce All the Data Justifying Clean Air Rules

-> Why The Feds Chickened Out On A Nevada Ranch

-> The Momentum Stock Meltdown Has Exposed A Big Flaw In A Very Popular Investing Strategy

-> The Week In Awesome Tech Can’t Buy Yet; But You Might Invest

-> How to Hire Employees You’ll Never Meet in Person

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Golden

April 11, 2014 • Top Story • 1530

Kathleen Sebelius’s resignation is a golden moment for those oppose Obamacare. Essentially, Sebelius becomes patient zero from the fallout of a poorly executed, haphazardly planned, and socialist policy. If this mess of a ‘healthcare’ fix can force the person who oversaw it’s commission bails on it, a week after it hit its ‘goals’, does anyone else stand a chance? Doesn’t look good.

Links

-> Kathleen Sebelius’s Resignation Is A Golden Opportunity

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

-> Top Economists Warn Germany That EMU Crisis as Dangerous As Ever

-> 2014 Crash Will Be Worse Than 1987’s: Marc Faber

-> Harvard Study: Your Share Of The Federal Debt Is $106,000

-> Amazon Pays Its Staff Up To $5,000 If They Quit — No Strings Attached

-> 3 Ways to Know When to Quit on an Idea

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The March of Doom (Brought to You By Progressive Policies)

April 10, 2014 • Top Story • 1475

We’re doomed and we have the failure of progressive policies to thank. The good ‘ole boys on Capitol Hill have been passing and writing laws that are eroding our freedoms and dissolving American Exceptionalism. The America that made the world what it is today is being driven toward self-destruction and there may be nothing we can do. Strap in, we’re doomed.

Links

-> THE PROGRESSIVE MARCH TO THE FUTURE IS DESTROYING AMERICA

-> Republicans Vote to Hold Former IRS Official in Contempt

-> Report: CO2 Is Not a Pollutant, Provides ‘Beneficial Impacts’ to Planet

-> STOCKS ARE SINKING

-> SEC Halts Trading in GrowLife As Pot Stocks Get Crushed

-> Apple Planning Drastic iTunes Revamp

-> Bureaucracy Creeping Into Your Company? 6 Ways to Strip It Out

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Cashing In On Oversight

The Myth Of The Income Inequality Caused By Capitalism

The ‘Media Circus’ Has a New Ringleader…

Regulating As An Art Form

Hiding In Plane Sight

Can Silicon Valley Save Capitol Hill?

Head For The Hills

Golden

The March of Doom (Brought to You By Progressive Policies)

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