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The World Is Swimmin |
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An old saying tells us, “You can never be too thin or too rich.” But the truth is that you can have too much cash. Today, the developing world and Europe are spending less money than they are taking in, and the result is a surplus of savings that the global economy must somehow learn to use effectively.
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The Graying Planet R |
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For anyone seeking to understand the future and exploit that knowledge to his or her own advantage, there is no greater truth than the saying, “Demography equals destiny.” |
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The Flat Tax Cometh |
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There are 8 million words in the Federal Tax Code, and the IRS itself doesn’t even know what they all mean. That code supports an entire industry of lawyers and accountants. Taxpayers in America spend a cumulative 6 billion hours each year just trying to figure out how much they owe the IRS. |
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The Name Game |
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What’s in a name? Often it’s where your enterprise finds its strength and identity. It used to be when you started a company, you put your name on the door and over the factory. |
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Housing Boom Peaks O |
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We are in the midst of . . . the biggest world-wide housing boom ever,” declared Robert Shiller, the Yale economist and author of Irrational Exuberance. In August 2004, sales of new homes went up by 9.4 percent, the biggest increase since December 2000. |
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