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Life after loopholes leaves Luxembourg scrambling to preserve tax-haven status
2015-03-22 04:34:53| IT Services - Topix.net
Luxembourg is getting special attention because of LuxLeaks - thousands of pages of tax-accord details, published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Photo / Thinkstock The country transformed itself from a rural economy into the European Union's richest in less than a century by swapping fields and steel mills for hedge funds and multinationals.
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Oscar fever has fans scrambling to watch, watch, watch
2015-01-22 18:28:01| Real Estate - Topix.net
In this March 2, 2014 file photo, an Oscar statue appears at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Between Jan. 15, when Academy Award nominations are announced, and Feb. 22, film fans flock to the theaters to see the nominated works.
UN panel scrambling to finish climate report
2014-11-01 14:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: After an all-night session, the United Nations' expert panel on climate science was scrambling Saturday to finish a report on global warming that the UN's environment agency said offers "conclusive evidence" that humans are altering the Earth's climate system. Combining the findings of three earlier reports, the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is also expected to describe how climate impacts, including melting Arctic sea ice and rising levels, are already happening and...
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Oil price declines have small-cap shale investors scrambling
2014-10-30 09:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Plummeting oil prices are pushing some of the small-cap companies which flourished as part of the U.S. shale energy boom close to their breaking point, while also prompting some well-known fund managers to aggressively buy energy stocks. Concerns about slowing growth in Europe and a stronger dollar have helped push the price of light crude oil down about 25 percent since June to about $82 a barrel, creeping closer to the average marginal cost of crude production of about $73 a barrel for U.S....
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Secret $700,000 Donation Has Scott Walker Scrambling Address Appearance of Corruption
2014-08-27 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: When Gogebic Taconite LLC began moving in November 2010--the same month Scott Walker was elected governor of Wisconsin--to develop an open-pit iron mine in one of the most environmentally sensitive regions of northern Wisconsin, the Florida-based mining firm got a lot of pushback. Residents of the region objected, along with Native American tribes. So, too, did citizens from across Wisconsin, a state that has long treasured the wild beauty of the Penokee Range. Environmental and conservation groups...
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