By Jamie Robertson It can invest in its own development, and it is spending an estimated $5bn on the 176-acre Apple Campus headquarters site. But still the money keeps rolling in. Most of it gets parked in what the accounts… Read More ›
Economics
Capitalistic Oligarchy
or the dark side of billions of dollars: First the Definitions: Oligarchy: noun, plural oligarchies. 1. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few…. Read More ›
Elizabeth Warren: I’m not running for president
Read the transcript of a “conversation between the Massachusetts senator and Fortune Contributor and former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, in which a more business-friendly side of Warren emerges.” Fortune: Congress just effectively repealed a Dodd-Frank prohibition on big banks using FDIC-insured… Read More ›
Product of Mexico: Harsh Harvest
A Times reporter and photographer find that thousands of laborers at Mexico’s mega-farms endure harsh conditions and exploitation while supplying produce for American consumers. By Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti A four part series in the Los Angeles Times The… Read More ›
The Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is Almost Certainly Dead
The Keystone XL Pipeline project is almost certainly dead. No, not because a bill that would have finally given the go-ahead to begin construction fell one vote short in the lame duck Senate last month. Sure, that halted the legislative… Read More ›
Water Pipelines
By Zoltan Grossman via The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington With diminishing water supplies and rapid human population growth, communities and countries are being prompted to investigate alternative water resources. Water pipelines have been a proposed, but controversial option. These… Read More ›
New solar material converts 90% of captured light into heat
By NEHA KARL Scientists have created the ‘black hole of sunlight’ – a new nanoparticle-based material that absorbs and converts more than 90 percent of captured sunlight to heat. Research from the US have developed a super-Sun-absorbing material that will… Read More ›
Voodoo Economics, the Next Generation
By Paul Krugman in The New York Times Even if Republicans take the Senate this year, gaining control of both houses of Congress, they won’t gain much in conventional terms: They’re already able to block legislation, and they still won’t… Read More ›
US Congress 2014 Committee Information and Cost
The United States House of Representatives currently has 21 congressional committees; 20 standing committees and one select committee. All but three committees, the Budget Committee, the Ethics Committee, and the House Administration Committee, are subdivided into subcommittees, each with its… Read More ›
US A+ Government and Cost
Everything that is Federally governed starts with a law in the US and is legislated by the US Congress. As the population grew following the legislation/law, details emerge that are also addressed either with supplementary legislation or a new law. All… Read More ›
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