With the price of oil trading at around $42 per barrel, many countries are experiencing economic downturns. Canada, Venezuela, Russia, Saudi Arabia and a couple of others are seeing their government revenues diminishing. Some are looking to diversify their economies, while others are just weathering the storm. But how much does it cost to produce […]
Archives for November 2015
Treasury urges IRS to target wealthiest Americans
The United States government is really clamping down on taxes. Not only is Washington revoking or rescinding passports held by Americans with unpaid taxes (SEE: U.S. government will revoke or rescind your passport if you don’t pay your taxes), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is being urged to target the wealthiest of Americans. According to […]
Should people be allowed to work for $1 an hour?
By: Jonathan Newman What is the least you would be willing to be paid to verify business addresses or phone numbers for a database? If you had a large online inventory and wanted simple word tags to describe each one of your products for search engine optimization, how much would you be willing to pay […]
PC Nonsense! Toronto company prefers ‘female candidates’ for receptionist job; everyone is outraged again
It doesn’t take much for people to be offended nowadays. Evidently, political correctness has gone berserk, and everyone, whether they’re on college campuses or on the insipid cesspool of social media, now have to ask themselves: “am I offended by this?” One of the latest cases of PC poppycock originates in the city of Toronto. […]
A look at the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar since 1913
The Campaign for Liberty writes: “This is what the Fed has done to American money.” The greenback has lost most of its purchasing power since the inception of the Federal Reserve System. As the chart below shows, when the Fed was instituted, the dollar was actually worth $1. Today, that has collapsed more than 90 […]