These days, it is minimally staffed and funded firms who invest in new authors. The giants avoid such risk, only picking the writers once their names are made

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Submitted on December 9th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

Eat the rich.

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Submitted on December 8th 2016 by everlost with 9 comments

Not since May of 2008 has the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for those holding a Bachelor’s degree been this low. At the current rate, we should see this dip under 2% by the middle of 2017. At least in terms of 4-year college graduates, the job market seems to be opening up significantly. As more degree holders become employed, the default and postponement rate for student loan and credit card payments should start dropping.

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Submitted on December 6th 2016 by rexall

At least three tents have been spotted in woodland beside the online retail giant’s base just off the M90 in Dunfermline in recent days, sparking concerns about the depths some employees are apparently plumbing to hold down a job.

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Submitted on December 10th 2016 by aj0690

Privacy campaigners express alarm after company contracts Sodexo to ‘capture individual insights’ from staff in Western Australian mining camps. By Max Opray.

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Submitted on December 8th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 2 comments

President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that the US should cancel an order for a new Air Force One plane that would cost billions of dollars, and Boeing shares promptly dipped slightly in morning trading. "Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion," Trump tweeted. "Cancel order!" At the close of the market on Monday, Boeing stock was at $152.16.

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Submitted on December 6th 2016 by ubthejudge with 3 comments and with 2 Related Links:

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A unanimous Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the almost $400 million in damages Samsung was ordered to pay Apple in a long-standing dispute over the patents on elements of smartphones. The justices ruled that Samsung does not have to pay Apple damages based on the profits for the entire device, only a component, and reversed and remanded the case back down to a lower court. In delivering the court's opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the text of the law resolves the case.

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Submitted on December 6th 2016 by sauce with 2 comments

Strangling public-sector unions in Wisconsin has shrunk teachers’ pay and benefits. Who’s next?

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Submitted on December 7th 2016 by jcscher with 3 comments

With the value of maple syrup at roughly $1,300 a barrel, it’s time everyone knew about FPAQ, the Canadian group that controls 72 percent of the world’s supply. By Rich Cohen.

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Submitted on December 10th 2016 by AdelleChattre

Barely half of 30-year-olds earn more than their parents did at a similar age, a research team found, an enormous decline from the early 1970s. Even rapid economic growth won’t do much to reverse the trend.

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Submitted on December 8th 2016 by zobo

Deddeh Howard is recreating fashion ads by putting herself in the place of white models. The results are stunning.

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Submitted on December 11th 2016 by AdelleChattre

The net worth of Mr. Trump’s Cabinet picks thus far, according to some estimates, is a combined $14 billion – and Sanders told “Face the Nation” that he will have “a lot of very important questions” for Mr. Trump’s choices.

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Submitted on December 11th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

How a tyre-maker's marketing gimmick wrote the book on restaurant ratings.

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Submitted on December 7th 2016 by Appaloosa

Microsoft is about to close the books on its $26.2 billion deal to purchase the professional social networking service LinkedIn. On Tuesday, it was announced that the European Commission had given its blessing to Microsoft, adding it to a list of regulators that approved the merger, including the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and South Africa. However, there’s a bit of a catch.

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Submitted on December 6th 2016 by geoleo with 3 comments

Why go to the movies when you can watch from your couch?

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Submitted on December 8th 2016 by geoleo

Napoleon Hill is the most famous conman you’ve probably never heard of. Born into poverty in rural Virginia at the end of the 19th century, Hill went on to write one of the most successful self-help books of the 20th century: Think and Grow Rich.

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Submitted on December 7th 2016 by Appaloosa

Many people are afraid of the potential contamination of China's tea crop by pollution. This post brings some reality to the subject.

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Submitted on December 11th 2016 by gladsdotter

In a move that seemed all-too predictable, Yik Yak has fired more than half of its staff. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the local startup laid off 30 of its 50 employees on Thursday. Since it began in 2013, the company behind the purportedly anonymous messaging app has never had, and still doesn’t have, any obvious source of meaningful revenue. Yet somehow, Yik Yak was valued by venture capitalists at $400 million in December 2014 after Sequoia Capital invested $62 million.

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Submitted on December 12th 2016 by geoleo

Beijing spends billions on moonshot projects such as teleportation and artificial intelligence, hoping to shake off its reputation as a copycat economy and curb dependence on foreign powers.

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Submitted on December 8th 2016 by roxxy

A charitable fund of the Rockefeller family – who are sitting on a multibillion-dollar oil fortune – has said it will withdraw all its investments from fossil fuel companies. The Rockefeller Family Fund, a charity set up in 1967 by descendants of John D Rockefeller, said on Wednesday that it would divest from all fossil fuel holdings “as quickly as possible”.

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Submitted on December 6th 2016 by ppp