• PRC Approves USPS Request To Sell ‘Gift Cards’ At Post Offices

    Updated: 2011-04-30 01:50:14
    The Postal Regulatory Commission approved USPS’ request to market test gift cards. PRC said in its decision that “Based on the record before it, the Commission finds that the proposed Gift Cards product is a postal service and that the market test is consistent with 39 U.S.C.3641. The Postal Service shall file results of market [...]

  • All USPS BOG Public Meetings to be available online starting May 10

    Updated: 2011-04-30 01:50:13
    Beginning May 10, 2011, all open session meetings of the Board of Governors will be available via live audio webcast on www.usps.com. Three hours after the conclusion of the open session meeting, a recorded audio file will be available for listening. In compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, the audio webcast will be [...]

  • Cut the family’s top budget item: tax

    Updated: 2011-04-30 01:20:52
    The new government should help families by cutting taxes By Niels Veldhuis and Charles Lammam In 2010, the average Canadian family faced a total tax bill of $29,913 against income of $72,393. This means all taxes imposed on the average Canadian family consumed more than 41% of its annual income. Such taxes include income taxes, ...

  • Guffey to APWU Members: Don’t Let Anti-Labor Politicians Stop You From Voting

    Updated: 2011-04-29 02:01:56
    Some very powerful politicians have set their sights on postal employees, APWU President Cliff Guffey has warned, and union members must respond decisively. “Anti-labor members of Congress have said the union’s tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement [PDF - members only] is too favorable to workers,” the union president noted. “They favor contracting out virtually all of [...]

  • Unfriendly Canada

    Updated: 2011-04-29 01:41:17
    If tax cuts are cancelled, investors may cancel spending By Roger Phillips Canada’s level of corporate taxes, an issue in the current federal election, has become a subject for much comment by politicians and pundits alike. At the political level, the debate has been dumbed down. One federal minister claimed that if the previously legislated ...

  • Senator Reid In Favor of 'Deficit Cap' in Debt Limit Increase

    Updated: 2011-04-28 20:24:25
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Targeting Budget Process , Triggering Fiscal Progress Senator Reid In Favor of Deficit Cap' in Debt Limit Increase Stimulus Provisions : Extended or Not Former CRFB Chairman Leon Panetta Selected to Be Next Secretary of Defense What Happens If China Stops Buying Our Debt MY VIEW : David Stockman Line’ Items : Post Easter Edition CBO : The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in Deficits By month April 2011 52 March 2011 68 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress

  • PA pension replaces 'failed' BlackRock fund with another BlackRock fund

    Updated: 2011-04-28 10:48:59
    BlackRock's "Alpha Tilts Fund failed to achieve the goal" of beating the S&P 500.

  • 2,000 postal employees take $20,000 buyout offers

    Updated: 2011-04-28 09:53:50
    “More than 2,000 U.S. Postal Service administrators have signed up for an early-out deal that will give them $20,000 in return for leaving their financially struggling employer by the end of next month, a spokesman said Wednesday. Two thousand three employees applied by the Monday deadline, spokesman Mark Saunders said. .Their departures will account for [...]

  • DIY pensions and dividends save the day at Standard Life

    Updated: 2011-04-28 08:50:37
    Nearly five years after Standard Life floated on the stock exchange, more than 1.3m shareholders in Scotland’s biggest insurance company may be wondering what went wrong. Despite a recent recovery – the shares have risen by more than 20pc since David Nish was appointed chief executive early last year – they remain below their flotation [...]

  • Stimulus Provisions: Extended or Not?

    Updated: 2011-04-27 22:35:10
    : CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Stimulus Provisions : Extended or Not Former CRFB Chairman Leon Panetta Selected to Be Next Secretary of Defense What Happens If China Stops Buying Our Debt MY VIEW : David Stockman Line’ Items : Post Easter Edition CBO : The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in Deficits The Case for a Debt Failsafe CRFB Releases Paper Analyzing President's Framework By month April 2011 50 March 2011 68 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress 224 Deficits and Debt 350

  • Did low pay stop Mark Thompson getting the best head of TV for the BBC?

    Updated: 2011-04-27 12:43:05
    It’s great news for George Entwistle that he has this morning been appointed the BBC’s “Director of Vision” (translated into English: head of television). His boss, Mark Thompson, could however have displayed kinder timing in his comments to the House of Lords Communications Committee yesterday, when he said: “It’s extremely hard now to fill senior [...]

  • Royal Wedding: accountants calculate £1.8m tax-free windfall for Prince William and Kate

    Updated: 2011-04-27 07:55:34
    Prince William and Kate Middleton could receive tax-free gifts worth a total of £1.8m on the occasion of the Royal Wedding, according to calculations by no less than the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). While I have resisted the temptation to report press releases like this to date, there is no point [...]

  • How will the “Cadillac Tax” impact your OPEB plan?

    Updated: 2011-04-26 18:40:45
     Although the effect of healthcare reform on retiree health plans is difficult to gauge at this point, there are several provisions that could impact the long-term costs   and strategies for employer plans. Let’s start with the so-called “Cadillac Tax” on high-cost insurance plans effective in 2018.  What it is:  A non-deductible 40% excise tax paid by the [...]

  • Gold bubble fears prompted by 52pc rise in bullion trading

    Updated: 2011-04-26 17:31:08
    Trading in gold at BullionVault, Britain’s biggest retail investment service specialising in the precious metal, soared by an eye-stretching 52pc last year. Audited accounts show 21,000 registered users bought and sold bullion worth £381m as prices hit new peaks. But a trend is only a trend until it stops and some fear a bubble is forming [...]

  • BBC bureaucracy? It's a 'high performance car'

    Updated: 2011-04-26 14:37:01
    An insight today into the way the minds of senior BBC finance bureaucrats work. I have just received, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, a paper on financial efficiency that was presented to the BBC Trust last June. (This is also an insight into the way the BBC’s FOI process works: I requested the [...]

  • HMRC denies profiting from tax refund delays

    Updated: 2011-04-26 07:12:20
    HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) denies profiting from tax refund delays which leading accountants claim are becoming more widespread and make taxpayers wait months to get back what they are due. The dispute follows miscalculations of Pay As You Earn (PAYE) liabilities last year, which HMRC originally also denied when reported in this space but later [...]

  • Start Thinking About the Impact of Medicare Reform on OPEB Plans

    Updated: 2011-04-26 01:51:30
    Employers who offer retiree health benefits to their employees have something new to think about: How will proposed Medicare reforms impact my plan and its costs? Although changes to the Medicare system are likely a long way off, Medicare reform is a hot topic lately and changes to the program could have a dramatic effect [...]

  • Government Insurance Companies in India – Nationalization and After (United India,National Insurance,LIC,GIC,Oriental Insurance,New India Assurance)

    Updated: 2011-04-25 05:08:48
    Not Just Any Other Investment Blog Search : for Home Green Investing World Market Indian Market About Me Best of GWI Government Insurance Companies in India Nationalization and After United India,National Insurance,LIC,GIC,Oriental Insurance,New India Assurance 25 Apr , 2011 by Abhishek Shah Finance Insurance India’s Insurance History Insurance in India  in its current form has its history dating back until 1818, when Oriental Life Insurance Company was  to cater to the needs of European community . In 1870, Bombay Mutual Life Assurance Society became the first Indian insurer . In the year 1912, the Life Insurance Companies Act and the Provident Fund Act were passed to regulate the insurance business . The Life Insurance Companies Act , 1912 made it necessary that the premium-rate tables

  • Things worth reading: 21st April 2011

    Updated: 2011-04-21 06:17:27

  • The IMF on Fiscal Adjustments

    Updated: 2011-04-20 15:49:02
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Ideas for Improving IPAB The IMF on Fiscal Adjustments CBO Releases Full Analysis of President's Budget Trouble Ahead S P Cuts US Ratings Outlook Line’ Items : Tax Day Edition A Special 10 40 Actually , Comprehensive Tax Reform Can Be Progressive Giving Taxpayers a Receipt By month April 2011 42 March 2011 68 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress 224 Deficits and Debt 350 Economy 133 Fiscal News 121 Health Care 128 National Debt 111 Process and Rules 81

  • Things worth reading: 20th April 2011

    Updated: 2011-04-20 07:06:04

  • Things worth reading: 19th April 2011

    Updated: 2011-04-19 06:53:11

  • A Special 10/40

    Updated: 2011-04-18 15:43:46
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Line’ Items : Tax Day Edition A Special 10 40 Actually , Comprehensive Tax Reform Can Be Progressive Giving Taxpayers a Receipt Rep . Cooper Withdraws Amendment , but Effort Was Not in Vain Rep . Cooper Offers Amendment Based on Fiscal Commission Plan Finally , We Have a Budget for This Year Rep . Van Hollen and the Congressional Black Caucus Unveil FY 2012 Budgets By month April 2011 38 March 2011 68 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 All Archives By Keyword Budget 197 CBO 100 Congress 224 Deficits

  • Things worth reading: 18th April 2011

    Updated: 2011-04-18 06:52:28

  • Actually, Comprehensive Tax Reform Can Be Progressive

    Updated: 2011-04-15 20:11:42
    , CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Actually , Comprehensive Tax Reform Can Be Progressive Giving Taxpayers a Receipt Rep . Cooper Withdraws Amendment , but Effort Was Not in Vain Rep . Cooper Offers Amendment Based on Fiscal Commission Plan Finally , We Have a Budget for This Year Rep . Van Hollen and the Congressional Black Caucus Unveil FY 2012 Budgets Senators Graham , Paul , and Lee Introduce Social Security Reform Legislation President Gives Major Fiscal Policy Speech Today By month April 2011 36 March 2011 68 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 September 2010 41 August 2010 43 July 2010 60 June 2010

  • Things worth reading: 15th April 2011

    Updated: 2011-04-15 06:51:05

  • What Europe's coming debt default will look like

    Updated: 2011-04-15 01:38:09
    I’m not sure why everyone thought comments the other day from the German Finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, to the effect that Greece may eventually face a sovereign debt restructuring, were such a revelation. This is in fact only a statement of the blindingly obvious, has been apparent in the market price of Greek sovereign debt [...]

  • Monthly MiFID MTF Monitor, March 2011

    Updated: 2011-04-14 06:14:00

  • Things worth reading: 14th April 2011

    Updated: 2011-04-14 00:55:00

  • Standard & Poor's Global Corporate Default Study

    Updated: 2011-04-13 15:57:25

  • Flashmobbing in the USA

    Updated: 2011-04-13 10:08:54

  • Things worth reading: 13th April 2011

    Updated: 2011-04-13 07:12:39

  • PA's proliferating public pension plans owe billions: Report

    Updated: 2011-04-07 19:45:45
    Pennsylvania has more than one-quarter of all the public-employee pension plans in the US. More than 1,000 are running significant deficits.

  • It’s now or never for ERRP application

    Updated: 2011-04-04 21:49:38
    We all knew this day would come, and now it’s here.  New applications for the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) will be received only until 5 pm on Thursday, May 5th. The last time we blogged about this, the ERRP money was going fast.  Now the urgency is clear. So if you’ve been thinking about [...]

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