Life – Week of 5.19.08

Pensions & Investments (11 Jan 10) The Internal Revenue Service wants to tax the State of Wisconsin Investment Board some $40 million, including interest, to

By Joe Mysak A South Carolina toll road’s Chapter 9 filing last week is just the third municipal bankruptcy this year, suggesting that states and

Author: S.C. Gwynne “Surprisingly, only a few voices cried out against the slaughter of the buffalo, which had no precedent in human history. Mostly people

”As in Athens, state accounting in Rome was haphazard, and fraud was common. In his Philippics (44-43 BCE), Cicero complained of bad accounts in his