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OECD plan to end corporate tax avoidance

In October 2021, 136 nations agreed to rewrite international corporate tax rules that had not been substantially updated since the 1920s. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development designed the...

Digital election monitoring tools gain use

Digital election monitoring has graduated from activist experiments into the standard kit of major observation missions. The National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute have built it into their...

Deaf workers earn 30% less than peers

Deaf and hard-of-hearing adults in the United States are employed at lower rates and earn less than hearing peers with identical degrees. A 2011 study by the National Technical Institute...

The Real Economic Impact of UK Bank Holidays

Every UK bank holiday generates two contradictory numbers. The Centre for Economics and Business Research priced a single day off at roughly £2.3 billion in lost output in 2012. A...

Apple M2 powers redesigned Air and Pro 13

At its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6, 2022, Apple announced the M2, its second-generation system-on-a-chip for Mac laptops. The chip and the two laptops that carry it, a redesigned...

Henry Ford's 1947 net worth: $1.6B

Henry Ford died on April 7, 1947, owning approximately 55 percent of Ford Motor Company. That single holding defined his net worth. The company was private. There was no public...