Bill Clinton: Lower The Corporate Tax Rate For Debt-Ceiling Deal
As the deadline to strike a deal on the debt ceiling draws closer, former president Bill Clinton criticized the nation’s corporate tax rate over the weekend, saying it should be lowered as part of an agreement between the parties, according to Politico. “We’ve got an uncompetitive rate,” Clinton told a crowd at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Saturday, More...
We Knew They Got Raises. But This?
IT turns out that the good times are even better than we thought for American chief executives. A preliminary examination of executive pay in 2010, based on data available as of April 1, found that the paychecks More...
Detroit Auto Companies Struggle With Union Profit-Sharing Idea
DETROIT (Bernie Woodall) – Over the past two years, Ford Motor Co has roared back from the brink of failure, won accolades for its gains in quality, posted its highest profits in a decade and rewarded patient More...
European Union Sending $14.5 Million In Food Aid To North Korea
Kim Jong II with European Union folks BRUSSELS — The European Union said Monday it will restart food aid to North Korea after the country’s repressive communist regime agreed to an unprecedented monitoring More...
China’s Women Buy Maseratis and Ferraris Like Italian Pastries
I totally missed this info nugget and in case you did, too: Chinese women buy three times more Maseratis and twice as many Ferraris than Western women do. A third of China’s millionaires are women, and they buy More...
Prince William And Kate Middleton Given Diamonds
Forbes Lifestyle has learned exclusively that the Northwest Territories government has presented Prince William and wife Kate Middleton with a Harry Winston diamond brooch and pair of cufflinks. The gifts, bearing More...
Meet Kate Middleton’s Go-To Designer ‘Daniella Helayel’
Call it the Kate Effect. Ever since Kate Middleton wore that silk navy dress at the announcement of her engagement with Prince William, the label Issa and its designer Daniella Helayel have become as popular as More...
Inside Donald Trump’s New Jet
Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife Donald Trump has just unveiled his newly refurbished $100 million Boeing 757, an aircraft that once belonged to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and what an overhaul it was. More...
Jay-Z brings 40/40 restaurant franchise to London
(Reuters) – Rapper Jay-Z plans to bring his 40/40 restaurant and bar franchise to London next year in a deal which will team him up with England and Chelsea soccer player Ashley Cole. The NVA Entertainment More...
Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice
For years Heidi W. Durrow heard the refrain: editors wouldn’t publish her novel because readers couldn’t relate to a protagonist who was part black and part Danish. But when that novel, “The Girl Who Fell More...