Economic bubbles: the Fed's financial control creates housing and other bubbles that burst with disastrous effect. The solution is to end central control and embrace free-market principles.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many Americans today are understandably concerned about the state of the economy. The current recession is likely to be one of the worst in recent memory, and comes at a particularly difficult time for many Americans, just as many of the Baby Boom generation are...

Castro's withdrawal of U.S. dollar could help Canadian money transfer services.
Now that the Cuban government has removed U.S. dollars from circulation, many Cuban-Americans are wondering how they're going to send money to their families on the island. Some are concerned whether they'll even be able to continue using U.S. money transfer services like Western Union and MoneyGram. ...

Technology puts the power in payment processing; in the end, there's nothing more important to your company's success than getting paid by customers for your DR products. New advances in payment processing technology have made old problems in finalizing payment easier to erase.
Get paid. Two words that put the proverbial exclamation mark on the end of sales. Get paid--then and only then--is the sale done. Thanks to the payment processing industry's tinkering with technology, paydays for DR marketers are getting easier and coming faster. Today, payment processing is reeking...

Bank of America cares for their customers: how to protect yourself from fraud.
Personal Information Protection Take steps to reduce the amount of mail you receive that displays personal information. Make copies of all the information that you carry daily and keep it in a secure place. Be cautious of telephone and door to door solicitations....

Update.
Sean Cahill, author of "The Coming GLBT Senior Boom" in the Jan.-Feb. 2007 issue, offered the following clarification: "My article noted the unfair treatment of same-sex partners under 401(k) policy. While married spouses could roll over a deceased spouse's 401(k) tax-free into an IRA, same-sex partners could not. This...

The curse of the purse: along with the obesity epidemic, there's now an even weightier problem for women to deal with: the trend of the supersized handbag.
What is it with women's pocketbooks? Who decrees that their dimensions and style must change from year to year, season to season? And why do we care what "who" says anyway? Why do we slavishly follow "who's" dictates? It's ridiculous. A few years ago, fashion...

Bally Technologies Gets Contract With Fantasy Springs Casino.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-12 September 2007-Bally Technologies Gets Contract With Fantasy Springs Casino(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Bally Technologies announced that it has signed a comprehensive contract with Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif., near Palm Springs to provide bonusing technology, a table games management solution...

Money can't buy integrity.
Elsie did not ask Robert to steal her ATM card just to implicate Pin Kiong, because if that was discovered and the company made a police report, Robert will be jailed and Elsie will be blamed. Elsie is the innocent party. If Robert admitted to the wrong...

Indiana Academy of Science 2006 year end financial report.
INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 2006 Year End Financial Report Balance Revenues 1-Jan-06 OPERATING FUND Dues 23,225.00 Interest 1,592.05 Contributions 50.00 Spring Meeting 200.00 Annual Meeting 8,060.00 Misc. Income 4.36 Officer's Expenses Operating Expenses Financial Expenses Newsletter Expenses Library Operations Committee Expenses Speaker of the Year AAAS Representative Web Site...

The race is on: on every station, that is. Election 2008 and other challenges give media buyers a run for their DR dollars.
Get ready for a spike in media costs--a super-duper one. Well into fourth-quarter 2007, direct response media buyers already feel the sting of upcoming presidential primaries. With no clear Democratic or Republican frontrunner and nearly 20 states advancing their primaries to February 5, a juiced-up "Super Tuesday,"...