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The chart below shows how much some of NATO member states spent on their military last year, according to a report published by the European Military Network (ELN). United States' share is huge. In 2014, the US spent abo...

Google just announced details about a beautiful new campus it's planning to develop in Mountain View, California.  The company is submitting plans to develop four sites in Mountain View's North Bayshore. This campus is ...

The rise of Uber is destroying the traditional taxi business, according to this compelling chart from data compiled by the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. It tracks sale prices of taxi "medallions," the expe...

RBS has posted a full-year loss – again. This is the seventh consecutive year of losses for the part-nationalised British lender. Shareholders waiting for recovery of value and resumption of dividends will have to grit...

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger -- Berkshire Hathaway's venerable leaders -- are celebrating their golden anniversary this year. Chairman Buffett, 84 and Vice-Chairman Munger, 91, released their annual letter to...

Last Monday, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) at his side, President Obama attacked Wall Street, again, for essentially helping in what the federal government and businesses can no longer provide...

New car buyers are being lulled into a false sense of security by dirt-cheap fuel prices as record numbers switch to gas-guzzling vehicles, auto experts warn. Even with the national...

Sony Music artists picked up five Brit Awards last week, more than any other label. One Direction, Mark Ronson, Paloma Faith, Foo Fighters and Pharrell Williams all took home top...

The fuel price hike, the second in a month, can dampen consumer sentiment towards new purchases of cars and two-wheelers

Baby boomers are consumers, not savers, especially when it comes to funding retirement, a new report confirms. "The retirement savings shortfalls show that for those on the verge of retirement,...

Leading tours to forage for wild mushrooms in North Carolina's woods, Alan Muskat lives a life that might sound like an idyllic fantasy to many cubicle dwellers.

When ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft made their lobbying debut in Sacramento last year, they were playing defense -- fending off efforts by the taxi industry and other interest groups demanding the upstarts be regul...

The divestment target is crucial for the government to stick to its fiscal deficit figure of 3.9% of gross domestic product

But long-standing minority shareholder Paddy McKillen believes complex legal agreements between the shareholders effectively weaken the brothers' hand Abu Dhabi's leading sovereign wealth fund has indicated it wants to b...

Saudi Arabia and OPEC may have dropped oil prices to stifle competition from America and other boom time locations, but they didn't drop it enough to stifle the U.S. oil and gas boom from fracking, a senior expert with M...

Dow Chemical is investing $6 billion to enlarge its manufacturing facilities in the United States by 40 percent, based on a wager that low natural gas prices here will persist into the middle of the next decade, a Dow ex...

It's the interface, not the mechanics, that makes an idea "insanely great."

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For years, accountants and 529 plan managers have had a long debate as to whether or not technology was a qualified education expense. If it is families could use 529 plan funds for laptop computers, etc. If it isn't fam...

When it comes to paying yourself a salary as an entrepreneur, how much should it be? The answer isn't as simple as one-size-fits-all.

Many U.S. cities have declined for a half-century, due to ambitious government policies that backfired. Can a pro-growth ideology called Market Urbanism bring them back?

In one resort town after another, the Republican presidential hopefuls are making their case to exclusive gatherings of donors whose wealth was unleashed by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.