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Latest: Porn and Pumpkins - When governments are strapped for cash and hesitant to raise income taxes, lawmakers often invent some wacky taxes on random goods, according to a Yahoo! news story this week. Six states currently enforce a tax on pornography. Texas goes a step further and taxes strip clubs, cheekily calling it the “pole tax.” Other states have […]

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Porn and Pumpkins

January 30, 2008

When governments are strapped for cash and hesitant to raise income taxes, lawmakers often invent some wacky taxes on random goods, according to a...

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The Recession-Proof State

January 25, 2008

Our previous blog post highlighted recession-proof jobs and employment sectors, so I thought a recent news story about a "recession-proof" state would be pertinent...

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Is YOUR job safe!?

January 24, 2008

With the word recession at the tip of every one's tongues these days, I figured it would be apropos to spotlight an article I...

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Competitive Trade Logistics Critical for Developing Countries

January 7, 2008

I came across an interesting article today in the Latin Business Chronicle that talked about a recent report that came out from the World...

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America’s Great Green Hope

January 7, 2008

Recently, "green" has become the ubiquitous buzzword used to describe all things environmentally-friendly. But prior to such days of mainstream climate-consciousness, the word "green"...

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Economic Marks of the New Year

January 3, 2008

You surely have been inundated with this news story, which is essentially contained within its own headline Oil breaks $100 as U.S. stockpiles drop Did you...

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Toronto to Lusaka: The World’s Best (and Worst) Business Travel Spots

December 20, 2007

This summer, London-based news-magazine, The Economist, ranked its best cities for business travel, and three countries dominated the top ten locations. Canada packed a one-two...

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