China’s Largest Meat Processor, Shuanghui International, Takes over World’s Largest Pork Producer, Smithfield Foods In Record $4.72 Billion Deal

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334460/Virginia-hocks-Ham-Capital-World-China-snaps-leading-pork-producer-record-4-72-billion.html Virginia hocks ‘Ham Capital of the World’ as China snaps up leading pork producer for record $4.72 billion Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest producer of pork, has agreed to be acquired by China’s largest meat processor, Shuanghui International, in the largest takeover of a US company by a Chinese firm in history Locals in […]

So Far This Year The Number of Foreclosures Has Increased 9% As Thousands of Americans Across The Nation Are Losing Their Homes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301934/More-million-Americans-homes-seized-banks-year–9-cent-2012.html Thousands more Americans are losing their homes this year with 1.5 million properties taken by banks – up nine per cent on 2012 By Katie Davies PUBLISHED: 10:27 EST, 31 March 2013 | UPDATED: 10:27 EST, 31 March 2013 The number of foreclosed or bank-seized homes has risen by nine per cent already this […]

Britain Loses AAA Credit Rating After Moody’s Decreases Their Credit Rating to AA1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283088/Calls-Osborne-quit-Britain-loses-cherished-AAA-credit-rating-downgraded-time-35-years-level-France-fears-triple-dip-recession.html Calls for Osborne to quit as Britain loses cherished AAA credit rating and is downgraded for the first time in 35 years to same level as France over fears of triple-dip recession It is the first time since 1978 that the Britain has seen its rating dropped from AAA Britain had been placed on […]

Worries over An Uncertain Economic Future and Better Contraceptive Education Cause U.S. Birth Rate To Drop To Record Lows

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2277238/Birth-rate-drops-record-lows-economic-worries-better-contraceptive-education-new-data-shows.html#axzz2KhFVK3OY Birth rate drops to record lows due to economic worries and better contraceptive education U.S. birth rate is lowest it’s been since peak in 1991 CDC data shows that there were only 13 live births per 1,000 women between 2010 and 2011 Teen birth rate also down to 31.3 births per 1,000 women Economic […]

A Group Of Investors Want To Buy The 982-acre Belle Isle From The City of Detroit For $1 Billion In Order To Establish A New U.S. Commonwealth Nation

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268696/Belle-Isle-Developer-wants-buy-island-Detroit-start-remarkable-new-nation.html Investors seek to buy island from Detroit and start a ‘new nation’ free of personal and corporate income taxes, where everyone has good credit and citizenship costs $300G By Dan Prochilo PUBLISHED: 10:38 EST, 26 January 2013 | UPDATED: 12:46 EST, 26 January 2013 A developer wants the city of Detroit to sell an […]

Bill Gates Makes A Case For A Cashless Society, Where All Electronic Transactions Are Recorded

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-hates-cash–here-s-why-185938362.html Bill Gates Hates Cash. Here’s Why By Peter Coy | BusinessWeek – Thu, Jan 24, 2013 1:59 PM EST Yahoo! Finance/Getty Images – Billionaires are known for not keeping a lot of spending green in their wallets. But that’s not why Bill Gates hates cash. He hates it because of its effect on people at the […]

Broken Promises: New Fiscal Deal Raises Taxes On Middle-Class Families, Which Breaks Obama Promise To American People

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256972/Middle-earners-hit-hardest-revealed-workers-making-30-000-bigger-hit-earning-500-000-new-fiscal-deal.html Workers making $30,000 will take a bigger hit on their pay than those earning $500,000 under new fiscal deal By Hayley Peterson PUBLISHED: 00:00 EST, 3 January 2013 | UPDATED: 06:25 EST, 4 January 2013 Middle-class workers will take a bigger hit to their income proportionately than those earning between $200,000 and $500,000 under […]

Smart TVs are a Bad Investment: Research Finds Consumers Rarely Use Fancy Features On Smart TVs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2254301/Are-smart-TVs-clever-good-Research-finds-simply-want-watch-favourite-shows.html Are smart TV’s too clever for their own good? Researchers find we simply want to watch our favourite shows New figures reveal consumers are ignoring the ‘smart TV’ features such as apps and twitter access, instead simply watching catch up’ video over the internet Comes as manufacturers set to launch their latest Smart TVs […]

The Good News: Jobless Rate Falls to 4-Year Low; The Bad News: The Size of the US Workforce Decreases

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2244695/US-unemployment-rate-falls-4-year-low–size-workforce-fallen.html Jobless rate falls to 4-year low. . . but only because the size of the workforce has fallen Jobless rate fell to 7.7 percent for November – its lowest rate in four years However, the Labor Department’s report shows a drop in the size of the workforce as a whole – an indication that […]

Redistribution of Wealth: Both Beijing and Shanghai Now Home To More Multimillionaires than Los Angeles

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245329/Boulevard-broken-dreams-Now-Beijing-Shanghai-multi-millionaires-Los-Angeles.html Boulevard of broken dreams: Now Beijing and Shanghai each have more multi-millionaires than Los Angeles By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 23:02 EST, 8 December 2012 | UPDATED: 00:58 EST, 9 December 2012 America is losing the millionaire’s race. A new report from WealthInsight shows Beijing and Shanghai each with more multimillionaires than Los Angeles. […]