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Digital Ally has proven yet again to be a wild micro-cap stock that has garnered massive attention of the low-priced stock traders.
ThinkstockThis was almost looking like a great week for the stock market, but geopolitical news interrupted this positive trend late on Friday morning and markets took a sharp turn for the worse....
thinkstockThe world of cable and network TV has been converging with new media for years. Now it looks as though a new channel is soon to be launched — The Sarah Palin Channel — and for $9.95 per...
Wikimedia CommonsIran remains a hot button issue for the West, although the situation has been very slowly deflating. Many public and private companies alike make disclosures in filings with the U.S....
ThinkstockDid you remember the White House saying to short Russian stocks in recent months as tensions were mounting between Russia and Ukraine and over sanctions? Well, their timing was way off, but...
Walmart has stores in all 50 states, but it does not have stores in some of the country’s largest cities, including New York City, San Francisco, Detroit, Seattle and Boston.
ThinkstockIn a new survey of more than 1,500 U.S. adults, Fox News was the most trusted television news source “to provide accurate information about politics and current events.” The news...
ThinkstockThailand is supposed to be a destination for the exotic and for beautiful beaches and great history. Currently, it is under a military coup. The nation’s military chief announced in a...
ThinkstockMost Americans think that the state they live in is also a good place for racial and ethnic minorities to live. In a recent poll of all 50 states, the highest scoring state is Hawaii, where...
ThinkstockVermont’s legislature did what many members of Congress and the president would like to do. It raised the minimum wage in the state to $10.10 from $8.73. The federal minimum wage is...
courtesy of USPS The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on Friday reported a net loss of $1.9 billion in the second quarter of its 2014 fiscal year. The total is equal to almost half the USPS’s reported...
ThinkstockFrom 1998 through 2007, the federal minimum wage was set at $5.15 an hour. Over a three-year period, the minimum wage rose to $7.25 in 2010, and that’s where it stands today. By federal...
ThinkstockThere are more than 600,000 bridges in the U.S. and the average age of a bridge is 42 years. Drivers make approximately 210 million trips daily across deficient bridges in the nation’s...
courtesy of USPSUnion workers for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) plan to protest a deal between the Post Office and Staples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) that was struck late last summer and has so far...
ThinkstockThis is a million-dollar question, literally. Maybe even a billion-dollar question, given all the lobbying money being spent on the debate. The United States has a top corporate income tax...