Category: Business
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US Guns Sales Booming
Mel Bernstein, owner of Dragonman Arms in Colorado Springs, told KOAA-TV that sales of semi-automatic weapons had boomed in recent days. He said: “We’re going from normally six to eight guns a day, to 25. I stocked up, I got a stockpile of these AK-47s, we’re selling these like hot cakes. Luckily I had an…
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Hyatt Chairman Pritzker To Work in Iraq
Thomas Pritzker, patriarch of Chicago’s richest family and executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corp., is starting to do business in Iraq. A venture he co-founded to chase deals in the war-torn country and other parts of the Middle East announced its first project last month: an upgrade of a port on the Persian Gulf—work that…
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United Continental Returns TIF Money
United Continental Holdings, parent of United Airlines, is giving back $5.6 million in City of Chicago tax incentives. The incentive money is tied to United’s 2007 move to its corporate headquarters at 77 W. Wacker Drive, along the Chicago River. Because of United’s recent plans to move out of that building and consolidate its headquarters…
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Companies Closing or Laying-off Since Obama Won
An incredible complication of stories over at TheBlaze.com. Here’s a partial list of layoffs announced since the election: Energizer – laying off 1,500 employees Exide Technologies – laying off 150 employees Westinghouse – laid off another 50 employees Research in Motion Limited – laid off about 200 employees Lightyear Network Solutions – laid off more than…
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Craigslist Ads Seek Election Night Sex
As Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make one final, last-ditch effort to win the presidency, some Washington, D.C. and surrounding area folks are using Craigslist to make one last-ditch effort to find an election night companion for some adult entertainment. Here are some of the best lines from personal ads seeking to relieve some stress…
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US Out Of The Top 10 In World Prosperity Index
The Legatum Prosperity Index assessed and ranked the prosperity of 142 countries based on eight sub-categories: economy, entrepreneurship and opportunity, health, governance, education, safety and security, personal freedom, and social capital. via Business Insider. We are now 12th. Embarrassing. No wonder people are leaving in droves.
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Forget FEMA, Get Walmart in There!!
In the wake of hurricane Sandy we’re hearing stories of hungry New Yorkers being forced to dumpster dive for food. This is in addition to the stories of looters dressing like Con Edison workers to get access to houses, elected officials expressing their frustration with the Red Cross, state troopers being deployed to N.J. gas…
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Intellectual Flight from China
Like hundreds of thousands of Chinese who leave each year, she was driven by an overriding sense that she could do better outside China. Despite China’s tremendous economic successes in recent years, she was lured by Australia’s healthier environment, robust social services and the freedom to start a family in a country that guarantees religious…
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Dem Governors Force Ins. Premiums Higher
Tens of thousands of homeowners who suffered wind and storm damage this week will get financial relief from rulings by several governors that insurers must treat Sandy as a tropical storm and not a hurricane. … “Whether they call it a hurricane or something else, that translates into the percentage I have to pay to…