Legislation, Markets
Optical Data Archiving at the United Nations
You have come into possession of some of the world’s most important documents - 43,000 of them to be exact. Each one of them must be fully protected, their integrity guaranteed, and they must be 100 percent reliable against loss or destruction. Failure to shield even a single crucial document could cause worldwide havoc - even war. Your mission,...
Markets
New systems cut risk of accidents and bring fingertip control to drill floor
The popular image of a drill floor on rigs and platforms is undergoing a radical change with the introduction of computer technology. Computer technology has cleared the modern drill floor of people, both on rigs and production platforms. Gone are those traditional scenes of rugged roughnecks, covered in mud and oil, manhandling drill pipes and ...
Loans
Payday loans have become popular
The payday loan business boomed again in Colorado last year, according to new figures from state regulators. After more than doubling between 2007 and 2008, short-term loans with interest rates up to 100 percent grew by about half last year, the Colorado Attorney General’s office reports. The increase locally is part of a nationwide explosion,...
Insurance
Travel Insurance
What could be more pleasant than thumbing your nose at the rest of the world as it shrinks from sight through an aircraft porthole? With umpteen hours of travel ahead and cocooned in space with an exquisite dry white, you could read your visitors insurance brochure and reassure yourself that all is well. Or you could enjoy yourself instead. Reading...
Business
Update Estate Planning After Sale of Business
Q. My wife and I recently sold our business. The sale netted us a good sum for retirement but it put the two of us into taxable estates as we now have more than two times the credit against estate tax. Long ago we set up living trusts, so we have that in place, but we’re hunting for something else to help save on estate taxes. Do you think we...
