Did you know that there are more shopping malls in the United States than there are high schools? That Americans spend in the neighborhood of three trillion dollars a year in malls? That a high percentage of shoppers buy things at a mall that they never intended to when they entered the mall. Why? Because [...]
By Steve Sebelius
Stop the presses: People don't like taxes.
The news coverage surrounding the Tax and Spending Control initiative has always been a little breathless, but it's getting even more so after TASC master (and state senator) (and candidate for governor) (and a hell of a good-looking guy) Bob Beers turned in boxes with 152,984 signatures to [...]
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Who wants to be a millionaire?
By Ian Mylchreest
That exalted status group has expanded by some 500,000 or 6.5 percent worldwide in the last year, reports the Toronto Globe and Mail. There are now 8.7 million millionaires on the planet, according to a report by Merrill Lynch and consultants Capgemini.
The real growth areas for millionaires has been rapidly developing countries in Asia and the Middle [...]
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