Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/08/2014 In our busy days, it is all too easy to fall into the trap of hearing (and believing) the latest headline and its associated spin. For some reason, three minute videos can quickly and easily remove these ‘spins’ without the need for a PhD. And so we decided to dust…
Colorado collects $2m in recreational marijuana taxes AP | Mar 11, 2014 Colorado legalized pot in 2012, but the commercial sale of marijuana didn’t begin until January. Washington state sales begin in coming months. DENVER: Colorado made roughly $2 million inmarijuana taxes in January, state revenue officials reported Monday in the world’s first accounting of the recreational…
Editor SWITZERLAND OF THE ORIENT The ironies of Singapore’s massive investment in troubled Swiss banking giant UBS are piling up. Even Lee Kuan Yew himself has now said that the Government Investment Corporation invested “too early” in UBS, with the result that is now showing a loss of billions of dollars of citizens’ money on…