Friday, April 23, 2021 On Tuesday, Finance Minister of Ireland Paschal Donohoe criticised talks co-ordinated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for a global minimum corporate tax rate, arguing smaller countries like Ireland “need to be able to use tax policy as a legitimate lever to compensate for the real, material and persistent advantage enjoyed by larger […]
93-year-old Michigan man freezes to death after electric company limits his power usage
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Marvin Schur, a 93-year-old man from Bay City, Michigan has died after the electric company limited his electric use due to his failure to pay over US$1,000 in past-due payments. Bay City Electric Light & Power installed a power-limiting device on his home on January 13. The device would limit the amount of power the resident […]
Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources
Saturday, January 12, 2019 A United-States-based team of scientists released findings on Thursday about the large statues that dot the island of Rapa Nui, also called Easter Island. The study, published on Thursday in PLOS One, employed quantitative spatial analysis to establish that the platforms, or ahu, built to support the Easter Island statues, or moai, are usually located near […]
Promotional Bags Carry Business To New Heights Of Success
Here’s An Opinion On: Best Plastic Bag Wholesale Promotional Bags Carry Business to New Heights of Success by Article PublisherYou have tried out different advertising and marketing strategies to reach the popularity of your business, products and services to new heights. Unfortunately, you don’t get results of your expectations. In other words, after investing so lot in the advertising through […]
Micro-loans to US poor from Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank
Sunday, February 17, 2008 Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has made the first loans to U.S. citizens who do not have a bank account. Grameen Bank is experienced in micro-financing in its home country, lending money to poor women that want to start small businesses. Since the start of the mortgage-crisis more people in the U.S. tend to turn to fringe […]