economy

The Legislature today passed a bill that would make the deceased eligible for Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend checks. I can’t count the number of times when I’ve been outside and had someone say, “You’re from Alaska? Is it true they pay you to live there?” The answer is a guarded yes; I’d talk about...
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The chief executive of Abercrombie & Fitch is being paid $4m (£2.6m) to curb his personal use of the company plane. (BBC) Geez, must be tough being the boss of Abercrombie & Fitch. All this time, I’ve been happy just to work at a place that has free coffee.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. really nailed it with a recent article he wrote for Huffington Post, in which he argues that “the Chinese are treating the energy technology competition if it were an arms race”. “China will soon make us as dependent on Chinese green technology for the next century as we have been...
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For starters, there was the story of the woman in Ohio who walked into a Burlington Coat Factory, claimed she just won the lottery, and everyone’s purchase was on her. She did not win the lottery and was not paying for everyone’s items. A riot ensued. Then, there was the Balloon Boy.  A 6-year-old...
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Why can’t all women politicians be like her?
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Bank of America apparently didn’t want to be left out of the list of banks that received bailout money and spent it wastefully right in front of the public that footed the bill. Bank of America, who received $45 billion in taxpayer dollars, sponsored a “five day carnival-like affair just outside the Super Bowl...
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Last week, The New York Times featured an article by Michael Cooper about the findings from a new American Society of Civil Engineers report on the country’s infrastructure. The results are bad. According to the report, “More than a quarter of the nation’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Leaky pipes lose an...
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