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Analyst Accuses USPS Of Giving Amazon Huge Subsidy

PYMNTS

According to Fortune , Josh Sandbulte, who is also a money manager, the USPS has gone beyond just agreeing to offer Sunday delivery for the online retail giant. But the formula for calculating those costs was set in 2006, and it hasn’t kept pace as packages make up a higher and higher percentage of USPS volume.

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Bank Customers Lose Real Money

Jeff For Banks

If this were 2006, things would be good. Heck, maybe there'll be a reassessment and your real estate taxes will go down. Taxes go down? And ignores politician's calls to continue to print money to keep bond yields low so they can keep swiping the national credit card. I made a funny.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. Adding to the observation is the fact that from roughly 2001-2006, a devastating housing price bubble formed due to lax lending standards.

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What’s Wrong With The Attack On Gig Economy Pay

PYMNTS

Yet here we are 13 years later, with a taxi industry that remains structurally identical to what it was in 2006 – and even 50 years before that – with drivers who are truly struggling to make ends meet. They want tools to help track their expenses and manage tax payments for the work they perform. Turning a Blind Eye.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. IBM’s management team described its blockchain developer toolkit as another way to make it easier for innovators to “stand up” blockchain networks. Investors have remained skeptical that the marketplace business model touted in 2006 is sustainable. Benjamin Franklin.

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The 40 Fintech Graduates from Y Combinator (YC)

Fintech Labs Insights

Table: YC Fintech Companies by Year Class Total Companies # Fintech Companies % Fintech 2014 (half year) 56 5 9% 2013 83 9 9% 2012 117 8 7% 2011 89 7 8% 2010 61 6 10% 2009 39 1 3% 2008 43 1 2% 2007 32 2 6% 2006 17 0 0% 2005 8 1 13% Total 545 40 7.4% Pay with with Dwolla or Bitcoin, and manage all your orders in one place. One solution.

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House of Blockchain

Tomorrow's Transactions

I told the assembled throng ( from the STFC ) that I was there to lobby parliament to have THE BLOCKCHAIN accepted as a religion, like Scientology, and to have all associated tax breaks and other privileges. Forum friend Tarvi Martens presented a case study from Estonia on population-scale identity cards.