Month: December 2020

Hand holds documents Captive insurance about insurance. getty The Supreme Court rarely hears tax cases which makes the recent oral arguments in CIC Services v IRS exciting. That is about all that makes them exciting to ordinary mortals as what was going on at the Supreme Court was an argument about whether they could have
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Virgin Galactic’s carrier aircraft releases its spacecraft Unity during a glide flight test. Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic confirmed its latest spaceflight test was cut short after its SpaceShipTwo Unity vehicle attempted to launch above New Mexico on Saturday. An unofficial webcast hosted by space enthusiast forum NASASpaceflight appeared to show the spacecraft’s engine aborted after
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At 30 years old, Nick Molnar is Australia’s youngest self-made billionaire. The young entrepreneur shot to fame and fortune as the co-founder and co-CEO of Afterpay, a deferred payments platform that allows users to stagger the cost of their purchases over regular, interest-free instalments. This year, the company has surged under a coronavirus-induced shift to
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Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) chairman Robert Chote at a press conference at the Institute … [+] for Government, London, as the organisation publishes its first Fiscal Sustainability report.Picture date: Wednesday July 13, 2011. Britain will effectively go bust if the Government does not offset the impact of an ageing population with increased taxes and
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KB Homes’ optional “Home Office Package,” available in homes throughout their footprint. Many … [+] builders are now offering such packages, and are finding strong demand. Photo Credit: Applied Photography The work-from-home trend is going to change the landscape. Literally. Homebuilders today are developing on land that would ordinarily be a “long commute,” and the
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The Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory panel signed off on Pfizer’s Covid vaccine with a 17 to 4 vote, with one abstention on Thursday night. Dr. Archana Chatterjee, dean of the Chicago Medical School, was one of the four “no” votes. Chatterjee explained her decision during a Friday evening interview on “The News with
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer and BioNTech‘s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, a monumental turning point in the once-in-a-century pandemic that has taken nearly 300,000 American lives in less than a year and wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy. The FDA’s emergency use authorization will now kick-start the federal government’s distribution of
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Throughout the pandemic, day trading has become extremely popular, especially among young people who, in most cases, have never invested in the stock market before. Coronavirus-induced lockdowns provided some with more time on their hands to try trading apps, like Robinhood, which are seeing a surge in business; millions of Americans are unemployed and may think
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