More Americans Wary of Tax Man This Year
By Jasmin Melvin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As a deep recession strips Americans of their jobs, homes and investments, the 2009 U.S. tax season promises to see a large uptick in first-time delinquent income taxpayers.
“Our calls are up 280 percent,” said Richard Boggs, founder and chief executive of Los Angeles-based [...]

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Better Times Are Coming?
By Eric Martin and Lynn Thomasson
April 10 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks rose for a fifth week, capping the steepest rally since 1933, as Wells Fargo & Co.’s higher-than-estimated earnings and speculation banks will pass government stress tests spurred optimism that the industry’s slump is ending.
Bank of America Corp., American Express Co. and [...]

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Hackers Have Already Embedded Code in U.S. Electrical Grid
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Computer hackers have embedded software in the United States’ electricity grid and other infrastructure that could potentially disrupt service or damage equipment, two former federal officials told CNN.

The code in the power grid was discovered in 2006 or 2007, according to one of [...]

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Unemployment Rising and Economy Still in Decline
For much of last week, it was possible to think that the economy was looking up. Various indicators, though weak, were not as bad as expected.
On Friday, reality bit back with the news that the unemployment rate spiked in March, to 8.5 percent, a 25-year high. The government’s report [...]

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My Future Plane Gulfstream V

While I’m Dreaming

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People are Leaving Michigan at an Alarming Rate
Joe LaCross drives American cars. Always has. Born and raised in the blue-collar suburbs of Detroit, this son of a welder wouldn’t dream of rolling past his autoworker neighbors in a Toyota. But not long ago the 38-year-old pulled into the driveway of his Sterling Heights home in [...]

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