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The warning from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the kind that sends chills down a driver's back. On Tuesday, NHTSA widened its recall of vehicles with potentially defective airbags to 7.8 million, the second such revision this week, and it added new car company names to the recall [...] read »
Key dates in General Motors' crisis over ignition defects in Chevrolet, Saturn and Pontiac small cars.
The federal government expects to collect nearly $2.8 trillion in individual, corporate, payroll, estate and gift taxes in 2014. This number is considerably higher than only two years prior, because as you may recall, starting January 1, 2013, four changes to the taw law took effect that increased taxes on the "wealthy:" A rise in the top rate from 35% to 39.6%, An increase in the top rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends from 15% to 20, A return of the[...] read »
There are five big tax questions on ballots this November; here is what should and will happen. read »
Both primary care and specialty care physicians reported that their compensation increased slightly in 2013. Primary care physicians reported $232,989[...]
As hospitals buy more doctor practices, medical groups and other health facilities, “higher total expenditures per patient,” are often the result, according to new research in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association. The study showed doctor practices owned by hospitals in California “incurred higher expenditures” for commercially insured HMO [...] read »
"I'm a convicted terrorist. I fly a lot. And the TSA won't leave me alone." That's the tagline for the "Jetsetting Terrorist," a blog launched last month in which a frequent flying hipster who has been watchlisted writes (humorously) about his misadventures trying to get on planes. read »
The 1.7% COLA means the average retired worker will see a $22 increase to $1,328 a month and the average retired couple will get a $36 boost to $2,176. read »