Some very powerful politicians have set their sights on postal employees, APWU President Cliff Guffey has warned, and union members must respond decisively. “Anti-labor members of Congress have said the union’s tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement [PDF - members only] is too favorable to workers,” the union president noted. “They favor contracting out virtually all of [...]
If tax cuts are cancelled, investors may cancel spending By Roger Phillips Canada’s level of corporate taxes, an issue in the current federal election, has become a subject for much comment by politicians and pundits alike. At the political level, the debate has been dumbed down. One federal minister claimed that if the previously legislated ...
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BlackRock's "Alpha Tilts Fund failed to achieve the goal" of beating the S&P 500.
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It’s great news for George Entwistle that he has this morning been appointed the BBC’s “Director of Vision” (translated into English: head of television). His boss, Mark Thompson, could however have displayed kinder timing in his comments to the House of Lords Communications Committee yesterday, when he said: “It’s extremely hard now to fill senior [...]
Prince William and Kate Middleton could receive tax-free gifts worth a total of £1.8m on the occasion of the Royal Wedding, according to calculations by no less than the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
While I have resisted the temptation to report press releases like this to date, there is no point [...]
Although the effect of healthcare reform on retiree health plans is difficult to gauge at this point, there are several provisions that could impact the long-term costs and strategies for employer plans. Let’s start with the so-called “Cadillac Tax” on high-cost insurance plans effective in 2018. What it is: A non-deductible 40% excise tax paid by the [...]
An insight today into the way the minds of senior BBC finance bureaucrats work. I have just received, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, a paper on financial efficiency that was presented to the BBC Trust last June.
(This is also an insight into the way the BBC’s FOI process works: I requested the [...]
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I’m not sure why everyone thought comments the other day from the German Finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, to the effect that Greece may eventually face a sovereign debt restructuring, were such a revelation. This is in fact only a statement of the blindingly obvious, has been apparent in the market price of Greek sovereign debt [...]Pennsylvania has more than one-quarter of all the public-employee pension plans in the US. More than 1,000 are running significant deficits.
We all knew this day would come, and now it’s here. New applications for the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) will be received only until 5 pm on Thursday, May 5th. The last time we blogged about this, the ERRP money was going fast. Now the urgency is clear. So if you’ve been thinking about [...]