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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

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Looking Back at 2012 Every year, I usually write about the past year with mixed feelings, at times nostalgic for those events and at times, glad that the year is over. 2012 brought us highs, lows, and surprises. Housing markets have begun to improve with the national indices showing year-over-year growth of 3% to 4% recently.

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London’s Dirty Little (Money Laundering) Secret

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office were facilitating tax evasion and money laundering. regulators didn’t seem inclined to take any real steps toward looking into the claims about BSI’s role in tax evasion at the time. A former employee at Swiss bank BSI, who worked at the bank’s U.K. But as the FT’s reports showed, U.K.

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Challenges to monetary policy: lessons from Medieval Europe

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Moreover, the national currency belongs to the people, and the state’s role is to regulate it to benefit the people. This is done by ensuring money is produced according to the strictest standards and avoiding manipulating it to the king’s benefit ( inflation tax ).

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3 top tech trends for public accountants to watch in 2017

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To be certain, many accountants could make a full-time job out of simply trying to understand the various types of technology that can make their personal lives easier and their practices more profitable and secure. These three trends are: the progress of blockchain technology, the continued shift to the cloud, and advances in automation. “The

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Wells’ Woes, Stripe’s Acquisition And North Korea’s New Hacking Groove

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Wells Fargo takes the security and privacy of our customers’ information very seriously,” the banking firm said in a statement according to the report. “We Consulting firm Oliver Wyman prepared the document after reviewing insurance policies sold to the banking firm’s customers from January 2012 through July 2016.

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Google Tracker: Making Allies And Enemies

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It used a “packing” technique to compress code with encryption to evade Google’s security filters. 2012 not to use third-party content such as images and reviews from parties that opted out, a practice known as “scraping.” The company is now demanding the Federal Trade Commission reopen that 2012 Google case “ immediately.”.

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Guest Post: Third Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

First of all, if they continue to buy securities, they are removing many of the high quality securities from the marketplace, possibly causing a disruption or shortage in the markets. trillion of securities amassed during QE1 and QE2. Or should I say “manipulate” interest rates lower? We should all be so lucky.