The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business Why is Wal-Mart so big and how did it get that way? Do you really know anything about the retail giant? Professor Nelson Lichtenstein tries to explain the background of Wal-Mart. If you’re interested at all about business and Big Box stores in [...]

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DIY Approach Versus National Chain Companies California is offering assistance for free tax filing. Workers that made less than $49,000 can get their taxes done for free. Californians are in company with tax clients from other states that are searching for money saving alternatives. Recessions and depressions, your preference of definition, demand action. Struggling families across the United [...]

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Best Undergrad Degrees From PayScale Best Undergrad College Degrees By Salary Click on chart for full details. Success is not always measured in the biggest paycheck but getting a degree that is applicable does matter. Here are the degrees that pay the most cash. It seems that engineers make the most, but there is plenty [...]

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The Ethics of Hoarding Money California’s Governor Jerry Brown has announced that his administration is going to slice 12.5 billion dollars out of the state budget. This draconian measure will deeply affect the poor, disabled, and will even have an impact on some colleges. As stated in The New York Times, this is a major crisis. [...]

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There Is A Jobs Deficit Crisis And Not A Skills Deficit Crisis Unemployment levels hit 9.6% in December of 2010 and underemployment reached 19%. The economy is the story of the day. The Dollars And Sense article sums it up skillfully – the real crisis is a “jobs deficit” and not a “skills deficit” as [...]

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Raising Taxes Has Become The Third Rail Of Politics Raising taxes is considered somewhat of a faux paux for Republicans in the White House. Democrats often rail on Reaganomics and the Trickle-down theory. But what do the Democrats intend do to about it? Instead of confronting the tax problem, Democrats opt to go along with it. Both parties [...]

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Spending cuts will push up unemployment to almost 3 million “Unemployment is not yet, but bids fair to be, the greatest of the British industries,” as was published in the Manchester Guardian in 1928. By the end of 1928, 1.2 million Brits were out of work. The national unemployment rate was 12.2%. In Wales and in [...]

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Consumers Still Against An Economic Wall Current spending is lower than that of a year ago and far below spending in September 2008, at the start of the financial collapse. According to Gallup, the financial collapse has not bottomed out just yet. The average American consumer is desperately searching ways to cut back on everyday spending. [...]

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Countries Compete Against Each Other Using Devaluation of Currency The Fed is intentionally weakening the dollar to bolster the economy and encourage exports, but economists warn that long-term this policy is not beneficial. Simply because this action is an invitation to other countries to spark currency wars. The weakening of currency does raise the price [...]

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Gallup’s Underemployment Measure Continues To Rise Economists can call Ben Bernanke all they want and say that the recession is over. Americans that live on Main Street are not buying into this point of view at all. Matter of fact, employment optimism is just as bad if not worse, as when the so called recession [...]

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