Month: April 2019

More and more Democratic presidential hopefuls are adopting a single-payer health care stance, which could be devastating for any player in the health insurance business, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. Following the lead of Bernie Sanders, the independent Vermont senator who is one of the biggest mouthpieces advocating for “Medicare for All,” about eight candidates
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Regulars readers of my articles will know that I have repeatedly said that the popular narrative, that Defined Contribution/401(k) plans are a “failed experiment” that’s the result of employers failing in their responsibility to provide Defined Benefit retirement plans, misses the point that the system in which individual employers provided guaranteed retirement benefits was not
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Abusive Tax Shelters jda The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it has obtained a permanent injunction against Michael L. Meyer (“Mike Meyer) of Florida from selling his “Ultimate Tax Plan” which used so-called Charitable LLCs and Charitable Limited Partnerships as part of an abusive tax scheme. The permanent injunction is very broad: Meyers
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Red Cross aid helps resident, from GlobalChange.gov, the 2018 National Climate Assessment Globalchange.gov “We moved into our new house and three weeks later, lost it all in Hurricane Harvey.” My heart sank for when the pleasant man sitting next to me at a legendary local D.C. bar and restaurant recently recounted his family’s experience relocating to Houston.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – NOVEMBER 16: A sign is posted in front of a Marriott hotel on November 16, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Marriott International announced plans to purchase Starwood Hotels & Resorts for $12.2 billion. The deal would create the world’s largest hotel company. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan | Getty
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Skyscrapers under construction in London. Oli Scarff | Getty Images New research from British insolvency firm Begbies Traynor revealed that 484,000 U.K. businesses are in “significant financial distress,” which is 14% of all the economically active firms in the country. The “Red Flag Alert” data also showed that the number of firms in “critical” distress,
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Redmond, WA, USA – January 30, 2018: One of the biggest Microsoft signs is placed next to green trees at a public intersection near Microsoft’s Redmond campus Getty Microsoft is on it! On April 15th CNBC published an article detailing how Microsoft responded quickly and efficiently after an email was shared throughout the company about
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Singapore’s DBS is Southeast Asia’s largest bank. Edgar Su | Reuters DBS Group Holdings, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, beat expectations to post record quarterly profits on better lending margins. The bank said on Monday that net profit for the first quarter increased by 9% year-on-year to a record 1.65 billion Singapore dollars ($1.21 billion). Refinitiv,
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