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T.G.I.T. - Four Day Work Week Success In Utah

About a year ago Utah Governor Jon Hunstman introduced the 4 day work week, and it has proven to be a success. The Working 4 Utah initiative put 17,000 out of 24,000 executive branch employees on a 10 hour a day, four day work week, with a three day weekend, and it seems the...

US Consumer Debt Falls For The 5th Consecutive Month

On Friday the Federal Reserve has reported US consumers are no longer consuming. For the fifth consecutive month consumer debt fell, by $10.3 B.  US consumer debt is estimated at $2.5 T. Analysts expected a $4.7 B reduction. "Outstanding U.S. consumer debt fell $10.3...

Financial Crisis Alarm

A final Wake-up Call: One should know that the real problem is more political than financial. The bums in Washington still could be straightened up - if they wanted to. The deficits and the economic downturn can...

Economic Recession is bogging the whole world now...

As many industries suffer during the

Art for Alternative Asset's Sake

" Art for alternative asset's sake FORGET any romantic notion of artists happily starving in a draughty garret as they pursue their vocation. The latest generation are proving hard-headed about the commercial side of their business. Consider this missive from "Scotland's...

Super Bowl 2009 to be Powered by Renewable Energy

Super Bowl 2009, which takes place this Sunday February 1, is moving even further towards lessening its impact on the environment. They have already offset their eco-footprint with a treeplanting effort and have...

Buy Less Stuff: Shortest Road to Going Green and Saving Some

People often talk about the third rail of politics or business, in Taboo Talk in Green Business: Buy Less Stuff (GreenBiz.com, December 22nd), Joel Makower offers one of his Strategies for the Green Economy (also the title of his book). He notes that "reducing or limiting...

Ever Thought of Using Solar Power to Iron Your Clothes?

Have you ever thought of using a solar powered iron for your clothes, this is one of the suggestions made in How to unplug from the grid by Gaia Vince in the Go-off grid (December 3rd Issue) of the New Scientist...

More savings, investment stressed in Myanmar in face of global financial crisis

Financial crisis has affect many other countries,thosa people who are working other countries,they are coming back there countries for the job. " The official newspaper New Light of Myanmar Wednesday stressed the need for the country to work for more savings and investment...

Using the Web for Maximum Holiday Savings

Travel November 28th, 2008 You already have your Black Friday ads in hand and now you are preparing the tent and BBQ grill for the pre-Friday camp out. OK, so maybe you don’t go that far… but you do want to save as much as you can, since your gift list has...

Probing Golden West

"NEW YORK (AP) - The Department of Justice is investigating the mortgage lending practices of Golden West Financial Corp., the savings and loan bought by Wachovia Corp. for $24 billion at the height of the housing boom in 2006.U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello told The...

Credit Crunch Lunch...Brown Bag or Not?

The grim headline 'Three million jobless' by 2010 (BBC, November 17) illustrated by a Credit Crunch Lunch 3.98 (British Pounds that is) picture shot got me on the hunt for more on the topic.As far back as April 2008, Restaurants gain appetite for credit crunch lunch (This is...

Daylight savings time change reminder

Daylight savings time change happens tonight in Canada and the US, so residents will get an extra hour of rest when they turn their clocks back. Standard time kicks in at 2am on Sunday morning.This means that from...

Germany to guarantee bank deposits

"In addition to helping rescue Hypo Real Estate from possible collapse, the German government has sought to reassure its citizens by announcing that it will guarantee all bank savings. Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück told reporters in Berlin that this meant that bank...

401k plans at risk as Wall Street struggles

If you think that the financial crisis can't hit any harder, think again.  While politicians debate on just how to bailout the financial sector, average Americans are watching their retirement savings turn to...

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