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...with an offer to take a bogus survey or IQ test. Once it's completed they require a cell-phone number to send you the results. When you enter your cell number and create a password, you have unwittingly subscribed to a service you never wanted but will be billed for. If you're a kid, the mysterious charge then appears on the phone bill of the parents, who often find that phone companies will not cancel services from a third-party provider - even if the parent cannot find out who that provider is. (See five Facebook...
...hard to know just how much that $400 billion in losses will end up lowering corporate America's tax bill. Companies are allowed to record tax credits for current losses and use those credits to lower their bill when they return to profitability. If companies have more tax credits than profits, they are allowed to carry those credits forward for up to 20 years or until they are used up. (See 10 ways to spend your tax refund...
...paid on profits over the past two years. However, Congress is moving closer to extending the so-called tax loss carryback provision to five years, instead of two. Senate majority leader Harry Reid recently threw his support behind the extension of the tax refund, adding it to a bill that would extend unemployment benefits. On Nov. 2, the Senate voted to close debate on the bill, which means a final vote to approve the bill would come later this week. It is expected to pass both houses of Congress easily...
...easy interview. She is preternaturally cautious, a consequence of her Methodist propriety and 20 years of insane public scrutiny. She does not like to talk about herself, but she did tell me one interesting story about Bhutto. When her husband was governor of Arkansas, she and Bill and Chelsea visited London and stood on the sidewalk outside Bhutto's hotel, waiting for the then Pakistani Prime Minister to arrive. "She was wearing a yellow embroidered shalwar kameez with a chiffon scarf. I was just a fan, standing on the sidewalk with everyone else. It was the only time I ever...
...many coming from conservative political circles in the past week, seemed to undercut the President's recent proclamation of the result of nuclear talks with the West as an Iranian "win." And when Ahmadinejad unexpectedly showed up in parliament on Nov. 3 to push for his version of a bill to reform Iran's food and energy subsidies, speaker of the parliament and powerful conservative Ali Larijani gave him icy treatment. Even before the 2009 presidential election, Iran's parliament served as a source of criticism against the perceived managerial incompetence of the President...