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...climbing, and what do you offer as an article but a report on $40 bottled water and $145 a bottle vinegar [April 14]. Honestly! Going out for us is lunch at a chain restaurant using coupons, and that doesn't happen often. We buy our clothes at Goodwill and discount stores. That $120 spent on a single beer could have provided a family of four with food for a week. Why not do something that will make you feel a whole lot better: donate the money to your local food bank or battered women's shelter. That trumps the exquisite...
...historically high. "These aren't as safe as cash," says Mark Soehn, managing director at Financial Solutions Advisory Group in Chicago. "But the risk is well worth it." He recently put his clients into the BlackRock International Municipal closed-end fund, which was trading at an unusually large 12% discount to the assets in the fund and yielding 5.7%. The after-tax equivalent of that yield for someone in the 30% tax bracket: 8.2%. Steep discounts and generous yields are still available in closed-end muni funds, including DTF Tax Free (recently at a 10% discount, with a 4.4% dividend...
Branson does not accept that idea. Virgin, he says, can succeed where discount and traditional carriers have failed, by offering something different: a hybrid that delivers good service at a reasonable price and eliminates the hub-and-spoke approach that creates mayhem whenever the weather sours. He has convinced his investors, who have so far put $312 million in capital into Virgin America, that this model can work in the U.S. "We're going to shake up the market," he says. Branson expects Virgin America to be profitable within two years. He has done this before: both his British...
...homemade purple label reading “Karim’s Palace of Discount Research” adorns the door adjacent to Gilbert’s office. Karim S. Kassam, Gilbert’s fourth-year grad student, sits inside, frustrated about the constant misunderstanding of his chosen field...
...past, elections have primarily served as an opportunity for Mugabe to tighten his grip. Campaigns have been violent, their aftermaths more so. Few would discount the possibility that by allowing open opposition, Mugabe is merely drawing his opponents into the open. But even if the violence fails to materialize this year, Maroleng says the poll is a distraction from talks between the government and opposition, mediated by South Africa, aimed at restoring a more democratic political climate in Zimbabwe and strengthening its institutions. The election, says Maroleng, once again reduces the question of Zimbabwe's political future to the question...