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...going to lie to you, when I first started working here I was surprised but now I’m not,” Liza says. Since she started at Jasmine Sola six months ago, prices of jeans have risen by $30, which still hasn’t hurt their popularity. Are kids working extra hours to buy jeans? Liza says no: “I can tell by the fact that we haven’t had many applicants here recently so I can tell it’s their parents’ money they’re spending...
...kicker: with most dividends now taxed at just 15%, many investors can get better after-tax returns from stocks than from bond yields, which continue to be taxed at personal-income rates as high as 35%. The number of firms paying dividends--376 of the S&P 500--has risen for the second year in a row after more than 20 years of declines. In the first 10 months of 2004, dividend payments were increased an average of 22% by 202 companies...
...It’s a business where, because the bottom line is winning...I think campaigns have gotten, as participation has dropped and the special interest money has risen, uglier and uglier and more difficult, and that’s unfortunate because it’s keeping a lot of good people from politics...
...only in times of dire national crisis. Fair enough, but our country has borne energy hardships for 80 years without harvesting the oil from this beautiful preserve. We survived the oil embargo of the 1970s without extracting oil from the Western Arctic Reserve. The fact that oil prices have risen in the last few years does not justify destroying such a sizable ecosystem...
...voters to the rolls in the swing states…a surge that has far exceeded the efforts of Republicans.” In Florida’s “strongest Democratic areas, the pace of new registration is 60 percent higher than in 2000, while it has risen just 12 percent in the heaviest Republican areas.” In Duval County, the site of much of last election’s controversy, “new registrations by black voters are up 150 percent over the pace of 2000.” Data in Ohio show...