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Layoff’s

Major layoffs were announced in 2025 include: UPS – 48,000 positions Nestle – 16,0000 positions Amazon – 14,000 positions Bosch – 13,000 positions Dell – 12,000 positions Accenture – 11,000 positions Nissan – 11,000 positions Intel – 10,000 positions Microsoft –...

30 Years of Cook County Property Tax Increases

Illinois residents pay the highest property taxes in the nation. Illinois Policy Institute research shows Cook County property tax bills have risen 78% since 2007, despite median property values rising just 7.3%. The treasurer reported last year’s collections were...

Fix things

As a country we don’t know how to fix anything any more. The world is more complex, a hundred years ago when I was a kid, tv’s had tubes in them.  Yes, I am that old… Now when a tv was not working you would unscrew the back off of the tv and look at the tubes, it one...

America’s poor savings habits

We all know that building solid retirement savings takes years, even decades, for good reason. You can easily spend twenty or more years without a paycheck in retirement. That’s why financial advisers strongly encourage everybody to save early and often (just like...

Before Computers there were

Scaccarium – A chequered cloth resembling a chess-board which covered the table in the exchequer, and on which, when certain of the king’s accounts were made up, the sums were marked and scored with counters The Medieval counting table was covered in a  checkered...

Before Computers there were

The abacus, originated in ancient Babylon, is a calculating tool with beads that slide on rods or wires, was in use in the ancient Near East, including regions where Arabic mathematics flourished, says UCDA Design Conference. Structure: An abacus typically features a...

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