Britain said last year it wanted a global tax but was ready to move on its own by taxing profitable companies at 2 percent on the money they make from UK users from April 2020. France’s Senate gave final approval to a tax on big technology companies on Thursday.Big internet firms say they follow tax rules but many have paid little in Europe, typically by channelling sales via countries such as …
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Britney Spears knows what it means to be deprived of adulthood. As told in her highly anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, hers is a tale of rapid maturity followed by arrested development, freedom followed by imprisonment. In the book, Spears likens herself to Benjamin Button, a character who ages backward through time.
Thrust into the limelight at just 16 years old with the 199…
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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.5%-points last week. That should be the last such raise.
The Core CPI—consumer prices with the volatile food and energy sectors taken out—rose by only 0.2% in America in November. That would be a 2.4% annual rate. Food and energy inflation came out lower. The Headline CPI—the entire index—rose by only 0.1% in November.…
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