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...hopes that his case will be brought up at the G-8 meeting. "I'm the poster child of Russian ambiguity," he says. But a country that jails or denies visas to some of its most successful tycoons is bound to be seen as unreliable. No amount of sweet-talking by Rosneft's president - or Putin - can mask that...
...face it--Uncle Sam is broke. The gap between the U.S. government's future expenses and tax receipts is $63.3 trillion. No surprise. The nation has 77 million retiring baby boomers on track to collect well above $30,000 a year--the average amount we're paying today's elderly--in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits. If you're planning for a cushy retirement, forget it. Get ready for much higher taxes, lower benefits and inflation...
...Gordon came to Atlantic City, N.J., confident that he would win big. Standing on a glass walkway between his new beachfront shopping mall and Caesars casino, he surveys a boardwalk full of people on a humid June afternoon and says, "There's no mall in America that has this amount of traffic on a Monday." If he were playing poker, Gordon's face would be a dead giveaway: he is obviously quite happy with his hand. At the end of the walkway is the Pier, a $210 million green glass complex holding 90 shops, 10 restaurants, two nightclubs, a wedding...
Atlantic City toyed with a similar move for years but couldn't give up its profitable day-tripper business model. Yet the opportunity was evident. Last year tourists made about as many visits to Atlantic City as to Las Vegas (34.9 million, vs. 38.6 million) and spent a comparable amount of money gambling--$5 billion at Atlantic City's 12 casinos, vs. $6 billion at the 42 casinos on Vegas' Strip. But the Strip's casinos brought in an additional $6.9 billion from nongambling sources, while Atlantic City's drew just $1.3 billion. All in, tourists dropped $36.7 billion...
...talk money. Money helps, a lot - but a relatively small amount of money goes a long way. If this couple will earn a modest $50,000 as a family, their odds of seeing their 15th anniversary jump to 68%. By and large, well-off couples divorce over personality conflicts while poorer couples divorce over alcoholism, physical abuse, and money problems. (Infidelity is a frequent deal-breaker, rich or poor...