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Turnover. In the typical stock fund, 4 out of 5 stocks held at the start of the year are gone by the end of the year. The trading costs subtract an additional .6% from a fund's investment gains...
Choosing a college means planning four years of your life; three if you subtract all the summers. The kind of choices we are making now have many far-reaching ramifications...
...subtract the Israeli-Arab vote, it means Netanyahu received 55.5% of the Jewish vote. It's like a landslide--not a close vote at all. For me, the real question is whether the momentum toward the establishment of a Palestinian state and Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights in exchange for Assad's paper agreement can be entirely stopped. My guess...
Coats has introduced legislation to be taken up next year that would allow each citizen to subtract $500 from his or her tax bill and send it instead to any private group that spends 70% of its funds on the poor. "We're going to deliver $95.9 billion dollars [to individual charities] over five years," he predicts. His plan has the support of Olasky and progressive Republicans such as former Education Secretary William Bennett, who helped draft...
...economy in the typical U.S. household: the principal breadwinner (let's say it's a he) brings home the same paycheck he was bringing home in 1970, when Richard Nixon was President and the Grateful Dead had hair. He may think he's got raises, but when you subtract for inflation, he hasn't. Yet his family is better off than it was in 1970, with 20% more buying power...