The United States has been engaged in a trade war since the end of World War II. Having the only industry after the World War II, we spread the doctrine of free trade to open markets in Europe and the Pacific. But the most important country in the East, Japan, closed its market, subsidized its manufacture, and sold its exports at cost, making up the profit in the closed market. By 1960 the country was losing a substantial portion of its textile industry and jobs due to the predatory practices of Japan. I testified before the old International Tariff Commission as Governor of South Carolina on behalf of the Northern and Southern textile industries about the loss of jobs and the trade war that ensued. When the Commission ruled against us, President John F. Kennedy, in May 1961, promulgated his seven-point program saving and protecting the textile industry. The War Production Act of 1950 called on the president to ensure that we had the equipment and materiel necessary to the nation's security. President Kennedy called for a cabinet hearing; I helped bring the witnesses, and the hearing concluded that, next to steel, textiles were the most important to our national security. At the time the saying was: "We can't send them to war in Japanese uniforms and Gucci shoes."
Corporate America was fully engaged in this trade war. As a U. S. Senator in 1968, Senator Norris Cotton of New Hampshire co-sponsored my textile amendment to secure better enforcement of our trade laws. And with the help of corporate America, the bill passed the United States Senate on a 68 bi-partisan vote. The White House immediately blocked any consideration of the measure in the House because they knew it would pass overwhelmingly, and President Johnson, not wanting to veto it, thought it more important to spread capitalism against communism in the Cold War. Coached by the Tri-lateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, President Carter vetoed one of my trade bills; President Reagan vetoed two others, and President George Herbert Walker Bush vetoed a fourth. To pass these bills through both Houses of Congress, I had the enthusiastic support of corporate America. But President Clinton went for the money. He put the white tent up on the White House lawn, and the Fortune 500 came with their contributions. A vanguard of Corporate America with labor helped Evelyn Dubrow and me garner the votes to defeat NAFTA with Mexico. But President Clinton changed enough votes for passage by giving a cultural center to Jake Pickle, joining in golf matches, giving two C-17s to a Congressman and other freebies reported by the New York Times. When President Clinton sponsored China's admission to the World Trade Organization as an emerging nation, corporate America decided: "If you can't beat them, join them." And then came the off-shoring of America's industry and jobs hemorrhaged.
Corporate America changed sides, joining Wall Street, the big banks, and the financial world in calling for free trade. This is the crowd with Larry Summers and Secretary of the Treasury Geithner counseling President Obama against protectionism and "starting a trade war." And the poor president intentionally or stupidly goes along. No one thinks President Obama is stupid, so it must be intentional. If the president enforces the trade laws, immediately coming down on his head will be Wall Street, the big banks, the financial world, the Business Roundtable, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business and Corporate America -- all interested in cheap Chinese imports and big Chinese profits to keep the market up. The Congress, like the president, refuses to engage in the trade war for fear that the contributions will be cut off or used against them. And all the media go along with this nonsense of free trade, "don't start a trade war," when we've been in one for over fifty years.
As Henry Clay, one of Jack Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, stated about free trade on the floor of the United States Senate in 1832: "It never existed; it never will exist...." China makes Clay's free trade forecast true. China, like Japan, closed its market for all things produced in China, but has adopted an industrial policy of attracting research, technology, development, and production with complete control of finance and labor. China sets the pace in globalization, and countries in the Pacific, Europe, and South America all engage in globalization to protect their economy. Globalization is nothing more than a trade war with production looking for a country cheaper to produce. And in this commercial chaos, a nation must move to protect its economy. There is no free trade.
Now comes the best of political writers, Joe Klein, with the cover article of Time magazine entitled "An American Journey." "One road trip reveals the issues people are talking about -- but politicians aren't," writes Klein. In the first sentences of the Klein article, Joe writes: "Americans get to talking about politics these days ... that our best days as a nation are behind us ... that China is in the driver's seat." And he closes his article: "Bill later took me to a community meeting that was filled with all the same complaints -- about the incivility of public discourse, about the loss of jobs to China." Klein is on target. The people have known for some time that we are in a trade war. Long before the recession, South Carolina lost its textile industry; North Carolina lost its furniture industry; Michigan lost its automobile industry; Silicon Valley and Intel had moved to China, with Bill Gates' Microsoft supporting research in China. An American industrialist is not invited to Jack Welch's GE seminar on competition. It's always been limited to an in-house seminar. But recently Jeffery Immelt held it in China with two dozen Chinese entrepreneurs invited. All of America is catering to China. Even Klein writes: "Clinton used to say that the manufacturing jobs that went away weren't coming back, and he was undoubtedly right about that."
Klein is right if nothing is done about the off-shoring of our economy. That's the nation's problem. That's the people's frustration. Nothing is being done. At the local level, governors and mayors have an industrial policy to attract industry and jobs. But Washington finances and supports the off-shoring of industry and jobs. Washington and the Wall Street crowd that got us into this mess are not a bit interested in U.S. jobs or the U. S. economy. Corporate America and the financial crowd are interested in opportunities in China, India, Vietnam, or wherever. But Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution emburdens Congress to regulate commerce, and the president is supposed to enforce the regulations. Our only hope is for President Obama and Congress to sober up from their political campaigning and take care of the country's needs. As Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Ronald Reagan, states: "The only way the United States will again have an economy is by bringing back the off-shored jobs."
This economy can be turned around on a dime by cancelling the corporate income tax and replacing it with a 5 percent value added tax. The FY 2010 estimate for corporate tax revenues is $156.7 billion. A 5 percent VAT reaps $600 billion with $443.3 billion left over to pay down the debt. This will eliminate the tax incentive to off-shore; eliminate the corporate income tax; eliminate the tax on exports, and make it profitable to produce in the United States. All that industry or corporate America needs is the assurance that we will implement a plan to compete in globalization. The making of such a plan or policy is on the books. We have the War Production Act to make sure the United States has the necessary equipment and materiel for our security. We don't have to wait for an industry to go bankrupt, but when an industry vital to our economy is in danger, the President under Section 201 of the Trade Act can move with tariffs or quotas on imports. Suffering $6 trillion in trade deficits in the last ten years, we can move immediately with an import surcharge like President Nixon in 1971. We can enforce our anti-dumping laws. But Washington has to wake up and compete in the trade war.
Quit whining about China. China's leaders are students of government and are determined to develop its people economically and at the same time keep the Middle Kingdom together. China has a plan and follows its plan, while the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pentagon wait for China to collapse in chaos. China's not the problem. Washington has to stop waiting and whining, get into the trade war, and develop a plan or industrial policy for this country to survive.
A New Jersey investment adviser who allegedly defrauded numerous clients of more than $2 million used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle while claiming to be investing the funds in conservative securities, the federal government said Tuesday.
Country club fees totaling over $75,000, lease payments for a Porsche 911 Carrera, and Audi Q7 and a Land Rover, at least $23,000 in home audio equipment and over $32,000 in landscaping are just some of the personal expenses the feds allege 38-year-old Carlo Chiaese of Springfield, NJ racked up. He allegedly transferred at least $800,000 to his wife and members of her family, withdrew at least $185,000 in cash and made over $65,000 in mortgage payments with his clients' money.
Chiaese, whose alleged victims include a union pension fund, surrendered to FBI agents on early Tuesday, said the New Jersey U.S. Attorney's office.
Other alleged expenses included stays at luxury hotels in New York, Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands; at least $25,000 in purchases at high-end retailers like Hermes, Salvatore Ferragamo, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue; and $16,000 in rugs.
Chiaese admitted in a conversation with two of his close friends on Sept. 18 that he had misappropriated money, according to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Jeffrey R. Clark.
He had been working in the financial industry since 1999 and began soliciting a number of new clients through his independent investment firm CGC Advisors LLC as early as 2008, the Justice Department said. They allege that, between November 2008 and September 2010, he raised more than $2.4 million from individuals and entities in New Jersey and New York.
One of those investments -- to the tune of around $1.71 million -- came from a pension fund managing the pensions of over 850 current and former unionized New York City public sector employees, said DOJ.
"As charged in the complaint, when Carlo Chiaese claimed to be making secure investments, he was really securing his own access to pricey diversions and ready cash," said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman. "Although we see far too many of these schemes, we cannot become desensitized to them. Each such allegation shows that there are many out there who would steal from the unsuspecting, and we are committed to exposing their frauds for what they are."
Chiaese's case was brought in coordination with the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force formed by President Barack Obama.
"People invested their money with Mr. Chiaese with the hope of having a comfortable retirement," said Michael Ward, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Newark Field Office. "But based on the allegations in the criminal complaint, it seems those retirement plans for tomorrow did not fit into Mr. Chiaese's plan for his own comfortable lifestyle today."
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The United States has been engaged in a trade war since the end of World War II. Having the only industry after the World War II, we spread the doctrine of free trade to open markets in Europe and the Pacific. But the most important country in the East, Japan, closed its market, subsidized its manufacture, and sold its exports at cost, making up the profit in the closed market. By 1960 the country was losing a substantial portion of its textile industry and jobs due to the predatory practices of Japan. I testified before the old International Tariff Commission as Governor of South Carolina on behalf of the Northern and Southern textile industries about the loss of jobs and the trade war that ensued. When the Commission ruled against us, President John F. Kennedy, in May 1961, promulgated his seven-point program saving and protecting the textile industry. The War Production Act of 1950 called on the president to ensure that we had the equipment and materiel necessary to the nation's security. President Kennedy called for a cabinet hearing; I helped bring the witnesses, and the hearing concluded that, next to steel, textiles were the most important to our national security. At the time the saying was: "We can't send them to war in Japanese uniforms and Gucci shoes."
Corporate America was fully engaged in this trade war. As a U. S. Senator in 1968, Senator Norris Cotton of New Hampshire co-sponsored my textile amendment to secure better enforcement of our trade laws. And with the help of corporate America, the bill passed the United States Senate on a 68 bi-partisan vote. The White House immediately blocked any consideration of the measure in the House because they knew it would pass overwhelmingly, and President Johnson, not wanting to veto it, thought it more important to spread capitalism against communism in the Cold War. Coached by the Tri-lateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, President Carter vetoed one of my trade bills; President Reagan vetoed two others, and President George Herbert Walker Bush vetoed a fourth. To pass these bills through both Houses of Congress, I had the enthusiastic support of corporate America. But President Clinton went for the money. He put the white tent up on the White House lawn, and the Fortune 500 came with their contributions. A vanguard of Corporate America with labor helped Evelyn Dubrow and me garner the votes to defeat NAFTA with Mexico. But President Clinton changed enough votes for passage by giving a cultural center to Jake Pickle, joining in golf matches, giving two C-17s to a Congressman and other freebies reported by the New York Times. When President Clinton sponsored China's admission to the World Trade Organization as an emerging nation, corporate America decided: "If you can't beat them, join them." And then came the off-shoring of America's industry and jobs hemorrhaged.
Corporate America changed sides, joining Wall Street, the big banks, and the financial world in calling for free trade. This is the crowd with Larry Summers and Secretary of the Treasury Geithner counseling President Obama against protectionism and "starting a trade war." And the poor president intentionally or stupidly goes along. No one thinks President Obama is stupid, so it must be intentional. If the president enforces the trade laws, immediately coming down on his head will be Wall Street, the big banks, the financial world, the Business Roundtable, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business and Corporate America -- all interested in cheap Chinese imports and big Chinese profits to keep the market up. The Congress, like the president, refuses to engage in the trade war for fear that the contributions will be cut off or used against them. And all the media go along with this nonsense of free trade, "don't start a trade war," when we've been in one for over fifty years.
As Henry Clay, one of Jack Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, stated about free trade on the floor of the United States Senate in 1832: "It never existed; it never will exist...." China makes Clay's free trade forecast true. China, like Japan, closed its market for all things produced in China, but has adopted an industrial policy of attracting research, technology, development, and production with complete control of finance and labor. China sets the pace in globalization, and countries in the Pacific, Europe, and South America all engage in globalization to protect their economy. Globalization is nothing more than a trade war with production looking for a country cheaper to produce. And in this commercial chaos, a nation must move to protect its economy. There is no free trade.
Now comes the best of political writers, Joe Klein, with the cover article of Time magazine entitled "An American Journey." "One road trip reveals the issues people are talking about -- but politicians aren't," writes Klein. In the first sentences of the Klein article, Joe writes: "Americans get to talking about politics these days ... that our best days as a nation are behind us ... that China is in the driver's seat." And he closes his article: "Bill later took me to a community meeting that was filled with all the same complaints -- about the incivility of public discourse, about the loss of jobs to China." Klein is on target. The people have known for some time that we are in a trade war. Long before the recession, South Carolina lost its textile industry; North Carolina lost its furniture industry; Michigan lost its automobile industry; Silicon Valley and Intel had moved to China, with Bill Gates' Microsoft supporting research in China. An American industrialist is not invited to Jack Welch's GE seminar on competition. It's always been limited to an in-house seminar. But recently Jeffery Immelt held it in China with two dozen Chinese entrepreneurs invited. All of America is catering to China. Even Klein writes: "Clinton used to say that the manufacturing jobs that went away weren't coming back, and he was undoubtedly right about that."
Klein is right if nothing is done about the off-shoring of our economy. That's the nation's problem. That's the people's frustration. Nothing is being done. At the local level, governors and mayors have an industrial policy to attract industry and jobs. But Washington finances and supports the off-shoring of industry and jobs. Washington and the Wall Street crowd that got us into this mess are not a bit interested in U.S. jobs or the U. S. economy. Corporate America and the financial crowd are interested in opportunities in China, India, Vietnam, or wherever. But Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution emburdens Congress to regulate commerce, and the president is supposed to enforce the regulations. Our only hope is for President Obama and Congress to sober up from their political campaigning and take care of the country's needs. As Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Ronald Reagan, states: "The only way the United States will again have an economy is by bringing back the off-shored jobs."
This economy can be turned around on a dime by cancelling the corporate income tax and replacing it with a 5 percent value added tax. The FY 2010 estimate for corporate tax revenues is $156.7 billion. A 5 percent VAT reaps $600 billion with $443.3 billion left over to pay down the debt. This will eliminate the tax incentive to off-shore; eliminate the corporate income tax; eliminate the tax on exports, and make it profitable to produce in the United States. All that industry or corporate America needs is the assurance that we will implement a plan to compete in globalization. The making of such a plan or policy is on the books. We have the War Production Act to make sure the United States has the necessary equipment and materiel for our security. We don't have to wait for an industry to go bankrupt, but when an industry vital to our economy is in danger, the President under Section 201 of the Trade Act can move with tariffs or quotas on imports. Suffering $6 trillion in trade deficits in the last ten years, we can move immediately with an import surcharge like President Nixon in 1971. We can enforce our anti-dumping laws. But Washington has to wake up and compete in the trade war.
Quit whining about China. China's leaders are students of government and are determined to develop its people economically and at the same time keep the Middle Kingdom together. China has a plan and follows its plan, while the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pentagon wait for China to collapse in chaos. China's not the problem. Washington has to stop waiting and whining, get into the trade war, and develop a plan or industrial policy for this country to survive.
A New Jersey investment adviser who allegedly defrauded numerous clients of more than $2 million used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle while claiming to be investing the funds in conservative securities, the federal government said Tuesday.
Country club fees totaling over $75,000, lease payments for a Porsche 911 Carrera, and Audi Q7 and a Land Rover, at least $23,000 in home audio equipment and over $32,000 in landscaping are just some of the personal expenses the feds allege 38-year-old Carlo Chiaese of Springfield, NJ racked up. He allegedly transferred at least $800,000 to his wife and members of her family, withdrew at least $185,000 in cash and made over $65,000 in mortgage payments with his clients' money.
Chiaese, whose alleged victims include a union pension fund, surrendered to FBI agents on early Tuesday, said the New Jersey U.S. Attorney's office.
Other alleged expenses included stays at luxury hotels in New York, Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands; at least $25,000 in purchases at high-end retailers like Hermes, Salvatore Ferragamo, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue; and $16,000 in rugs.
Chiaese admitted in a conversation with two of his close friends on Sept. 18 that he had misappropriated money, according to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Jeffrey R. Clark.
He had been working in the financial industry since 1999 and began soliciting a number of new clients through his independent investment firm CGC Advisors LLC as early as 2008, the Justice Department said. They allege that, between November 2008 and September 2010, he raised more than $2.4 million from individuals and entities in New Jersey and New York.
One of those investments -- to the tune of around $1.71 million -- came from a pension fund managing the pensions of over 850 current and former unionized New York City public sector employees, said DOJ.
"As charged in the complaint, when Carlo Chiaese claimed to be making secure investments, he was really securing his own access to pricey diversions and ready cash," said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman. "Although we see far too many of these schemes, we cannot become desensitized to them. Each such allegation shows that there are many out there who would steal from the unsuspecting, and we are committed to exposing their frauds for what they are."
Chiaese's case was brought in coordination with the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force formed by President Barack Obama.
"People invested their money with Mr. Chiaese with the hope of having a comfortable retirement," said Michael Ward, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Newark Field Office. "But based on the allegations in the criminal complaint, it seems those retirement plans for tomorrow did not fit into Mr. Chiaese's plan for his own comfortable lifestyle today."
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<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
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Fox News Channel finished #4 in prime time on all of cable (total viewers) last week - the week before their ratings are likely to increase even further thanks to the miner rescue coverage. Here's a look at the rest of cable news:
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The United States has been engaged in a trade war since the end of World War II. Having the only industry after the World War II, we spread the doctrine of free trade to open markets in Europe and the Pacific. But the most important country in the East, Japan, closed its market, subsidized its manufacture, and sold its exports at cost, making up the profit in the closed market. By 1960 the country was losing a substantial portion of its textile industry and jobs due to the predatory practices of Japan. I testified before the old International Tariff Commission as Governor of South Carolina on behalf of the Northern and Southern textile industries about the loss of jobs and the trade war that ensued. When the Commission ruled against us, President John F. Kennedy, in May 1961, promulgated his seven-point program saving and protecting the textile industry. The War Production Act of 1950 called on the president to ensure that we had the equipment and materiel necessary to the nation's security. President Kennedy called for a cabinet hearing; I helped bring the witnesses, and the hearing concluded that, next to steel, textiles were the most important to our national security. At the time the saying was: "We can't send them to war in Japanese uniforms and Gucci shoes."
Corporate America was fully engaged in this trade war. As a U. S. Senator in 1968, Senator Norris Cotton of New Hampshire co-sponsored my textile amendment to secure better enforcement of our trade laws. And with the help of corporate America, the bill passed the United States Senate on a 68 bi-partisan vote. The White House immediately blocked any consideration of the measure in the House because they knew it would pass overwhelmingly, and President Johnson, not wanting to veto it, thought it more important to spread capitalism against communism in the Cold War. Coached by the Tri-lateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, President Carter vetoed one of my trade bills; President Reagan vetoed two others, and President George Herbert Walker Bush vetoed a fourth. To pass these bills through both Houses of Congress, I had the enthusiastic support of corporate America. But President Clinton went for the money. He put the white tent up on the White House lawn, and the Fortune 500 came with their contributions. A vanguard of Corporate America with labor helped Evelyn Dubrow and me garner the votes to defeat NAFTA with Mexico. But President Clinton changed enough votes for passage by giving a cultural center to Jake Pickle, joining in golf matches, giving two C-17s to a Congressman and other freebies reported by the New York Times. When President Clinton sponsored China's admission to the World Trade Organization as an emerging nation, corporate America decided: "If you can't beat them, join them." And then came the off-shoring of America's industry and jobs hemorrhaged.
Corporate America changed sides, joining Wall Street, the big banks, and the financial world in calling for free trade. This is the crowd with Larry Summers and Secretary of the Treasury Geithner counseling President Obama against protectionism and "starting a trade war." And the poor president intentionally or stupidly goes along. No one thinks President Obama is stupid, so it must be intentional. If the president enforces the trade laws, immediately coming down on his head will be Wall Street, the big banks, the financial world, the Business Roundtable, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business and Corporate America -- all interested in cheap Chinese imports and big Chinese profits to keep the market up. The Congress, like the president, refuses to engage in the trade war for fear that the contributions will be cut off or used against them. And all the media go along with this nonsense of free trade, "don't start a trade war," when we've been in one for over fifty years.
As Henry Clay, one of Jack Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, stated about free trade on the floor of the United States Senate in 1832: "It never existed; it never will exist...." China makes Clay's free trade forecast true. China, like Japan, closed its market for all things produced in China, but has adopted an industrial policy of attracting research, technology, development, and production with complete control of finance and labor. China sets the pace in globalization, and countries in the Pacific, Europe, and South America all engage in globalization to protect their economy. Globalization is nothing more than a trade war with production looking for a country cheaper to produce. And in this commercial chaos, a nation must move to protect its economy. There is no free trade.
Now comes the best of political writers, Joe Klein, with the cover article of Time magazine entitled "An American Journey." "One road trip reveals the issues people are talking about -- but politicians aren't," writes Klein. In the first sentences of the Klein article, Joe writes: "Americans get to talking about politics these days ... that our best days as a nation are behind us ... that China is in the driver's seat." And he closes his article: "Bill later took me to a community meeting that was filled with all the same complaints -- about the incivility of public discourse, about the loss of jobs to China." Klein is on target. The people have known for some time that we are in a trade war. Long before the recession, South Carolina lost its textile industry; North Carolina lost its furniture industry; Michigan lost its automobile industry; Silicon Valley and Intel had moved to China, with Bill Gates' Microsoft supporting research in China. An American industrialist is not invited to Jack Welch's GE seminar on competition. It's always been limited to an in-house seminar. But recently Jeffery Immelt held it in China with two dozen Chinese entrepreneurs invited. All of America is catering to China. Even Klein writes: "Clinton used to say that the manufacturing jobs that went away weren't coming back, and he was undoubtedly right about that."
Klein is right if nothing is done about the off-shoring of our economy. That's the nation's problem. That's the people's frustration. Nothing is being done. At the local level, governors and mayors have an industrial policy to attract industry and jobs. But Washington finances and supports the off-shoring of industry and jobs. Washington and the Wall Street crowd that got us into this mess are not a bit interested in U.S. jobs or the U. S. economy. Corporate America and the financial crowd are interested in opportunities in China, India, Vietnam, or wherever. But Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution emburdens Congress to regulate commerce, and the president is supposed to enforce the regulations. Our only hope is for President Obama and Congress to sober up from their political campaigning and take care of the country's needs. As Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Ronald Reagan, states: "The only way the United States will again have an economy is by bringing back the off-shored jobs."
This economy can be turned around on a dime by cancelling the corporate income tax and replacing it with a 5 percent value added tax. The FY 2010 estimate for corporate tax revenues is $156.7 billion. A 5 percent VAT reaps $600 billion with $443.3 billion left over to pay down the debt. This will eliminate the tax incentive to off-shore; eliminate the corporate income tax; eliminate the tax on exports, and make it profitable to produce in the United States. All that industry or corporate America needs is the assurance that we will implement a plan to compete in globalization. The making of such a plan or policy is on the books. We have the War Production Act to make sure the United States has the necessary equipment and materiel for our security. We don't have to wait for an industry to go bankrupt, but when an industry vital to our economy is in danger, the President under Section 201 of the Trade Act can move with tariffs or quotas on imports. Suffering $6 trillion in trade deficits in the last ten years, we can move immediately with an import surcharge like President Nixon in 1971. We can enforce our anti-dumping laws. But Washington has to wake up and compete in the trade war.
Quit whining about China. China's leaders are students of government and are determined to develop its people economically and at the same time keep the Middle Kingdom together. China has a plan and follows its plan, while the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pentagon wait for China to collapse in chaos. China's not the problem. Washington has to stop waiting and whining, get into the trade war, and develop a plan or industrial policy for this country to survive.
A New Jersey investment adviser who allegedly defrauded numerous clients of more than $2 million used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle while claiming to be investing the funds in conservative securities, the federal government said Tuesday.
Country club fees totaling over $75,000, lease payments for a Porsche 911 Carrera, and Audi Q7 and a Land Rover, at least $23,000 in home audio equipment and over $32,000 in landscaping are just some of the personal expenses the feds allege 38-year-old Carlo Chiaese of Springfield, NJ racked up. He allegedly transferred at least $800,000 to his wife and members of her family, withdrew at least $185,000 in cash and made over $65,000 in mortgage payments with his clients' money.
Chiaese, whose alleged victims include a union pension fund, surrendered to FBI agents on early Tuesday, said the New Jersey U.S. Attorney's office.
Other alleged expenses included stays at luxury hotels in New York, Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands; at least $25,000 in purchases at high-end retailers like Hermes, Salvatore Ferragamo, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue; and $16,000 in rugs.
Chiaese admitted in a conversation with two of his close friends on Sept. 18 that he had misappropriated money, according to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Jeffrey R. Clark.
He had been working in the financial industry since 1999 and began soliciting a number of new clients through his independent investment firm CGC Advisors LLC as early as 2008, the Justice Department said. They allege that, between November 2008 and September 2010, he raised more than $2.4 million from individuals and entities in New Jersey and New York.
One of those investments -- to the tune of around $1.71 million -- came from a pension fund managing the pensions of over 850 current and former unionized New York City public sector employees, said DOJ.
"As charged in the complaint, when Carlo Chiaese claimed to be making secure investments, he was really securing his own access to pricey diversions and ready cash," said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman. "Although we see far too many of these schemes, we cannot become desensitized to them. Each such allegation shows that there are many out there who would steal from the unsuspecting, and we are committed to exposing their frauds for what they are."
Chiaese's case was brought in coordination with the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force formed by President Barack Obama.
"People invested their money with Mr. Chiaese with the hope of having a comfortable retirement," said Michael Ward, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Newark Field Office. "But based on the allegations in the criminal complaint, it seems those retirement plans for tomorrow did not fit into Mr. Chiaese's plan for his own comfortable lifestyle today."
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A brief treat for sports fans and future-of-media junkies: Bill Simmons' column at ESPN.com about his accidental tweeting last week about Patriots wide receiver.
<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Fox <b>News</b> Remains Far Ahead Of Cable <b>News</b> Competition During Pre <b>...</b>
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A brief treat for sports fans and future-of-media junkies: Bill Simmons' column at ESPN.com about his accidental tweeting last week about Patriots wide receiver.
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Bill Simmons on breaking <b>news</b> in a Twitter universe » Nieman <b>...</b>
A brief treat for sports fans and future-of-media junkies: Bill Simmons' column at ESPN.com about his accidental tweeting last week about Patriots wide receiver.
<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Fox <b>News</b> Remains Far Ahead Of Cable <b>News</b> Competition During Pre <b>...</b>
Fox News Channel finished #4 in prime time on all of cable (total viewers) last week - the week before their ratings are likely to increase even further thanks to the miner rescue coverage. Here's a look at the rest of cable news:
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Bill Simmons on breaking <b>news</b> in a Twitter universe » Nieman <b>...</b>
A brief treat for sports fans and future-of-media junkies: Bill Simmons' column at ESPN.com about his accidental tweeting last week about Patriots wide receiver.
<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Fox <b>News</b> Remains Far Ahead Of Cable <b>News</b> Competition During Pre <b>...</b>
Fox News Channel finished #4 in prime time on all of cable (total viewers) last week - the week before their ratings are likely to increase even further thanks to the miner rescue coverage. Here's a look at the rest of cable news:
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Bill Simmons on breaking <b>news</b> in a Twitter universe » Nieman <b>...</b>
A brief treat for sports fans and future-of-media junkies: Bill Simmons' column at ESPN.com about his accidental tweeting last week about Patriots wide receiver.
<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Fox <b>News</b> Remains Far Ahead Of Cable <b>News</b> Competition During Pre <b>...</b>
Fox News Channel finished #4 in prime time on all of cable (total viewers) last week - the week before their ratings are likely to increase even further thanks to the miner rescue coverage. Here's a look at the rest of cable news:
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Insert cliché opening paragraph about the economy and nowadays people are turning to work online, blah, blah, blah. Oh, wait, you're actually reading? Sorry. Well, then, let me say this. Making money online is possible, but, just as everyone will tell you (except for the scammers), don't expect to "get rich" or "get rich quick". You have to put in time, effort, and most of all, work.
Things to Avoid
1. Anything that asks for payment. Never, ever spend your time on these. You will be losing money and making someone else's wallet fat for them without them having to do anything but scam you. I once heard it phrased like this, you don't have to pay for a job interview, do you? It's the same concept here.
2. Paid-to-try/trial offers. Generally, these are a scam. Yes, they will probably look like a pretty profit, but many of them aren't free to try or charge you after a certain trial period and are very hard to get rid of. They cause frustration and money-loss and are NOT worth it.
3. Anything that doesn't tell you what you're doing upfront. This is kind of obvious. If it's shady, it's probably a scam.
4. "Get rich quick"s. You don't get rich quick any time in life unless you win the lottery or something like that. Work is work. Everyone has to earn their money and they don't get rich quick doing it.
Really, just use some common sense and you should be fine.
What I have learned is that a few places, while they don't make much money for me, are slow and steady and reliable. (Other than freelancing, that is. Freelancing is an entirely different set of ideas.)
BeRuby.com
BeRuby is a site that pays you very small amounts when you click on websites through their web-page. Many of the sites I go to every day are there, and many that I don't are also there. (Click on them anyway.) They also pay you for signing up at certain places and cash back for shopping at stores they have deals with, many of which are hotel sites and airline sites and big names, like K-Mart.
It has a $10.00 payout minimum and pays to PayPal. While I don't expect to make much here (I'm not), the extra couple bucks I gain from two minutes of effort and the time I spent on the computer every day is worth it to me. I don't have to change anything up or spend hours filling in stupid surveys.
See here.
Number two: Inbox Dollars
This site sends you emails, which you can open in your inbox or in your inbox on their site. They also offer a variety of ways to otherwise make money, including surveys, trials, signing up for things their advertisers send them, games, shopping, etc.
Their payout is $30.00, which seems like a lot for a paid-to-open site, but like I said, it doesn't happen overnight.
See here.
Number three: SendEarnings
They are, literally, identical to Inbox Dollars. They are even run by the same company. They have the same payout and send you the same emails and offers, so you can really get paid twice for opening the same email, which some might call scamming - except for the fact that they let you sign up under the same name and everything. Their pay-out is also $30.00.
See here.
Number four: Cash Crate
Similar to the above two, Cash Crate has a good reputation, a clean layout, and a $20.00 payout which is relatively easy to reach. They are a similar set-up to the above two: surveys, offers, etc. I personally like Cash Crate the best.
See here.
Number five: ChaCha!
If you don't know what ChaCha is, it is a service run through cellphones and call ins. People send questions to ChaCha and get answers from real-life people - who might be you. And you can also be paid to do this. It's a relatively complex process. You must go through training and pass a test to get hired, which takes a couple of days, but it's worth it if you can research and type quickly.
A note worth mentioning: they only work properly in FireFox.
See here.
It is possible to get paid through online work that isn't freelance writing or starting your own business. Once again, keep in mind to avoid scams, that it won't happen overnight, that you must work at it, and that it is possible.
Good luck.
Sources:
Personal Experience
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Bill Simmons on breaking <b>news</b> in a Twitter universe » Nieman <b>...</b>
A brief treat for sports fans and future-of-media junkies: Bill Simmons' column at ESPN.com about his accidental tweeting last week about Patriots wide receiver.
<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Fox <b>News</b> Remains Far Ahead Of Cable <b>News</b> Competition During Pre <b>...</b>
Fox News Channel finished #4 in prime time on all of cable (total viewers) last week - the week before their ratings are likely to increase even further thanks to the miner rescue coverage. Here's a look at the rest of cable news:
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Bill Simmons on breaking <b>news</b> in a Twitter universe » Nieman <b>...</b>
A brief treat for sports fans and future-of-media junkies: Bill Simmons' column at ESPN.com about his accidental tweeting last week about Patriots wide receiver.
<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Fox <b>News</b> Remains Far Ahead Of Cable <b>News</b> Competition During Pre <b>...</b>
Fox News Channel finished #4 in prime time on all of cable (total viewers) last week - the week before their ratings are likely to increase even further thanks to the miner rescue coverage. Here's a look at the rest of cable news:
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