I’ve been reflecting this week about the amazing diversity of opportunities that are opening up for bloggers to make money from blogging. I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket. The wonderful thing is […]
Budget and Tax thoughts for Dobbs Ferry
Tough economic times will require a local budget response. By mid August of this year financial firms globally have posted $493 billion in write downs and credit losses according to Bloomberg News. The World Bank reports this figure may rise to one trillion dollars. New York State is especially vulnerable to the financial service […]
A historic opportunity
Like the Democratic Party in America, which is capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of certain victory, I have seen few countries in the world that have the ability to waste historic opportunities like Pakistan has done. Much that I have been a critic of President Dictator Musharraf in Pakistan, I do have to […]
Oilmen Strike Over Exchange-Rate Change
On June 11, foreign media reported that 600 workers on an oil rig belonging to the Italian company ENI went on strike in Nebitdag in the west of Turkmenistan. The protest was dispersed by paramilitary units of the interior and national security ministries, and 62 arrests were made. An NBCentralAsia source in the western Balkan […]
Bulgaria: Statehood in Crisis
by Yavor Mihaylov In early April, the crisis that had broken out as a result of the exposed corruption in the circles of the interior ministry, exacerbated even further. The public was outraged by the fact that the interior minister Rumen Petkov had meetings with the Galevi brothers, who are allegedly among the biggest mafia bosses […]
Reps Summon Okonjo-Iweala Over $16b Power Expenditure
The House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel says it has tracked down electricity contracts worth $12.93 billion awarded from the $16 billion voted for the sector during the reign of Olusegun Obasanjo as President. Committee Chairman, Ndudi Godwin Elumelu, vowed at the weekend to trace the balance $3.07 billion, and disclosed that former […]