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Gary Vaynerchuk is an Internet phenomenon. Trusty New York Jets spit bucket by his side, he's helped grow his family's liquor store into a $70 million online wine retailer and made his daily wine-tasting videos - at Winelibrary.tv - a staple for thousands of viewers. Gary himself boasts more than 850,000 followers on Twitter. Now, he's sharing the secrets of his success with the masses in his new book, Crush It! Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion. Vaynerchuk talked to TIME about the book, the growth of his online brand...
...totally serious about this. I would say I'm a solid two decades away. From a business standpoint, I'm very serious. I can do it. I've already talked to Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook to make sure he keeps a couple hundred million on the side...
While other automakers are closing plants in the U.S., Kia, which is controlled by South Korea's Hyundai Automotive Group, is preparing to open a brand-new assembly plant in West Point, Ga., southwest of Atlanta. The $1.2 billion, 2.2 million-sq.-ft. plant will begin producing Kia vehicles for the retail market next month. Up until now, Kia had imported 100% of its vehicles. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...always good news, though, for real estate agents, mortgage lenders and homebuilders. The higher prices go, the bigger their cut of the action. These groups are powers in Washington. The National Association of Realtors gave more money than any other group to candidates in the last elections ($4 million), according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and its 1.1 million members can do a lot of lobbying. Hence the subsidies for homeownership that never go away. In 1961 departing President Dwight Eisenhower warned of "the acquisition of unwarranted influence" by what he dubbed the military-industrial complex. Maybe...
Enrollment in Catholic schools peaked in the 1960s, when more than 5 million students attended nearly 13,500 parochial schools. Since then, both enrollment and the number of schools have dropped by more than half. Why? For starters, the number of priests, nuns and brothers able to teach for free has plummeted. In 1950, 90% of the teachers in Catholic schools came from religious orders; by 1967, the figure was 58%; today, it is 4%. This shift has meant that schools have had to raise tuition in order to pay more lay teachers. Meanwhile, increasingly middle-class Irish and Italian...