The Citizens Dividend Liberates Everyone

EXCERPT: This Robin Hood scenario has rarely happened in history. More efficient than trying to capture wealth downstream, after the elite has accumulated it, is to capture wealth upstream, preventing an elite from forming. A tax on income or sales or property captures wealth...

Revenue Sharing in State Of Alaska

" The 2008 Dividend Amount is $3,269.00 This amount includes the $1200.00 Alaska Resource Rebate."And you only have to be a resident for one whole year! Wow! This is better than that measly $300 Bush gave us. And it's every year! Course it's taxable. Still.

Freddie Mac Suffers $861 Million Loss

The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac to you and me) is facing losses far worse than analystis predicted. The FHLM exists to create a secondary market for mortgages, and its business model seems...

A Pentagon metastasized almost beyond recognition

"Who, today, even remembers the debate at the end of the Cold War about what role U.S. military power should play in a "unipolar" world? Was U.S. supremacy so well established, pundits were then asking, that...

BA profits soar, boss refuses bonus

I'm sure every one you was caught up in the T5 disaster feels sorry for Mr Walsh losing out on his bonus."BA profits soar, boss refuses bonus The troubled opening of Heathrow's Terminal 5...

Citi loses almost $10B, slashes dividend

Even with the endless services charges Citibank still managed to break the record books.  "NEW YORK - Citigroup Inc. lost almost $10 billion in last year's final three months, the largest quarterly deficit in...

PepsiCo declares dividend

"The Board of Directors of PepsiCo today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.375 per share on PepsiCo common stock. The dividend is payable Jan. 2, 2008, to shareholders of record on Dec. 7, 2007.PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) is one of the world's largest food and beverage companies,...

PT Inco Tbk Approves An Interim 2007 Dividend of $0.9787 Per Share

"PT International Nickel Indonesia Tbk (the "Company", JSX: INCO) today announced that the Board of Commisioners of the Company approved the proposal of the Board of Directors to distribute an interim 2007 dividend of $0.9787 per share, consisting of a nominal interim...

Sir Philip Green has denied himself a dividend from Bhs

"Retail tycoon Sir Philip Green has denied himself a dividend from his Bhs department store chain for a third year running, despite signs that the chain is beginning to reap the benefits of store upgrades. The company reported a 3% rise in operating profits in the year to...

Fannie Mae adjusts dividend rate for preferred stock series O

"The new dividend rate for Series O will be in effect from and including September 30, 2007 to but excluding December 31, 2007. In accordance with the terms of the Series O Preferred Stock Certificate of Designation, the dividend will continue to accrue at a per annum rate of...

Northern Rock withholds dividend

"Northern Rock will not pay the interim dividend it announced in July before August's market turmoil, BBC business editor Robert Peston has learned. The firm has bowed to pressure from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Treasury not to make the payment - worth...

Anger as Northern Rock plans dividend

"Goldman Sachs was brought in after the Treasury guaranteed Northern Rock's debts alongside savers' deposits eight days ago. It will advise on implications for taxpayers of any rescue plan, while considering...

Check credentials and shareholding of the borrowers first-else fall prey to D...

"Check credentials and shareholding of the borrowers first-else fall prey to Deemed Dividend provison. Someone Asked on a Yahoo Group- Answered by me on 12/11/06 There are two directors/members in a private ltd co .A having 99% shareholding and B having 1% shareholding. now...

No TDS on distribution of assets on liquidation

"No TDS on distribution of assets on liquidation Someone Asked On This blog A Pvt Ltd Company is under Liquidation and there is excess of assets over liabilities( due to accumulated Profits) which the liquidator wants to distribute among the shareholder. What are the...

10 Top-Rated, Dividend-Paying Stocks

"Companies sometimes return profits in the form of cash dividends to their shareholders. Most firms that pay dividends are usually more mature and belong to more stable industries such as utilities or REITs. Young growth companies generally don’t pay dividends, as they tend...

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