How much in additional taxes per hour recommends an IRS auditor?

How much in additional taxes per hour recommends an IRS auditor?
An IRS auditor working tax returns cases for people with incomes between $200,000 and $400,000, recommends $605 in additional taxes per hour, while one working on a $5 million return will find $4,545 per hour, according to the inspector general’s report.

What is the last thing you want to hear, and possibly to believe?

What is the last thing you want to hear, and possibly to believe?
That your unwillingness to play your role has implications well beyond you.

What percentage of high-school grads are enrolled in two- or four-year college programs?

What percentage of high-school grads  are enrolled in two- or four-year college programs?

Just under 66% of recent high-school grads were enrolled in two- or four-year college programs in 2013, down from 68.6% in 2008, according to research by the American Council on Education, a higher-education industry group.

How to create loyalty that last a lifetime?

How to create loyalty that last a lifetime?

Giving a young person an opportunity

What percentage of Americans don't have landline phones?

What percentage of Americans don't have landline phones?
 
About 40% of Americans have no landline phones, up from about 2% in 2003, according to the 2014 federal National Health Interview Study.

How to operate under a set of assumptions?

How to operate under a set of assumptions?
Believing that instability can be contained.
Believing that the core order will not be affected.
Believing that  your own interest will not be threatened.

How much does the average federal employee earn?

How much does the average federal employee earn?

$84,153 in 2014—roughly 50% more than the average worker in the private economy. When you include benefits like health care and pensions, the average federal worker’s compensation rises to $119,934—nearly 80% higher than everyone else.

When a cost-benefit calculation was wrong?

When a cost-benefit calculation was wrong?
When the interests and the stakes involved are now higher than originally anticipated.

What percentage of the population age 16 and over is employed in jobs that involve primarily routine task?

What percentage of the population age 16 and over is employed in jobs that involve primarily routine task?

26% in January 2014.
It was 34% in January 2008 according the economists Henry Siu and Nir Jaimovich.

How much of its assets a mutual fund is allowed to hold in hard-to-sell-securities?

How much of its assets a mutual fund is allowed to hold in hard-to-sell-securities?

 

By regulation a mutual fund is only allowed to hold 15% of its assets in hard-to-sell-securities, a category that includes private-company shares.

Why doesn't work to try to fix societal causes?

Why doesn't work to try to fix societal causes?

 

Because it avoids responsibilities.

How many metric tons of gold has the U.S.?

How many metric tons of gold has the U.S.?

 

The U.S. has 8,134 metric tons of gold.

Germany, the second holder,  has 3,381 

Why does ideology never solve a problem?

Why does ideology never solve a problem?
Because only competency gets results.

How to present your unpalatable strategy without tamping down your position?

How to present your unpalatable strategy without tamping down your position?

 

Showing that your unpalatable strategy is the best way, at least temporarily, of tackling the problem.

Where is the point when you reach diminishing returns?

Where is the point when you reach diminishing returns?

When you do not enjoy what you are doing.

How many months on average cohabiting couples in the U.S. stay together?

How many months on average cohabiting couples in the U.S. stay together?

 

18 months.

Why the war on poverty leads to a systematic production of a perpetual underclass?

Why the war on poverty leads to a systematic production of a perpetual underclass?

Because it is a war of the government but not a war of the people.

How to displace population in the U.S.?

How to displace population in the U.S.?

 Rising home prices and attracting tech jobs in a concentration of tech firms.

When is difficult to get innovative?

When is difficult to get innovative?

When you turn technology over to someone else.

What is the main difference between a poor neighborhood and a rich neighborhood?

What is the main difference between a poor neighborhood and a rich neighborhood?

 

The family structure according to a research team headed by MIT's David Autor

How many student borrowers are in America?

How many student borrowers are in America?

43.34 million. 13.5% of the population.

Why insecurity rises and opportunity contracts?

Why  insecurity rises and opportunity contracts?

Because too many people  expect everything must be taken care of for someone else

What country is the largest issuer in euro-zone corporate bond markets?

What country is  the largest issuer in euro-zone corporate bond markets?

The U.S. is the largest issuer in euro-zone corporate bond markets with 53 billions at September 7 , 2015

How does the federal government encourage the wrong behavior?

How does the federal government encourage the wrong behavior?

 

Subsidizing it.

When can you reach everything?

When can you reach everything?

After several failed attempts.

What is the most powerful lobby against everything?

What is the most powerful lobby against everything?
Business interests.

How does Congress magically reduce the ten year deficit projection?

How does Congress magically reduce the  ten year deficit projection?

“Pulling” the 11th year tax revenue  forward and into the ten-year budget window.