Another election is approaching and it’s no coincidence that 2012 is shaping up to be a huge year for sales of bullets and …
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Students, Your Loan Interest Rate Is About to Double
Prepare yourself: on July 1, as many as 8 million college students will see their interest rates on federally subsidized student loans double, from 3.4% to 6.8%. According to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, that increase …
A Tax Hike is a Terrible Thing to Waste
For weeks, Democrats and Republicans have been locked in a bitter dispute over the so-called “millionaires tax” – an income tax surcharge targeting wealthy taxpayers. Democrats want to use it to pay for an extension of the …
America’s Love-Hate Relationship with Wealth
I’ve been on the road for the past two months, mostly in Bolivia and Peru, where I was pretty off the grid and didn’t keep up with the news. So I arrived home to find a strange phenomenon: Protesters “occupying” Wall Street. And …
