Word: accountancy
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...audience member said she found this account particularly compelling...
...rally featuring the country's most popular reform politicians, it was Ganji who brought down the house. "Ganji! Ganji!" the crowd roared when he arrived. Once a functionary in the Revolutionary Guards and Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance, Ganji, 40, is now calling Iran's Islamic authorities to account in a way no other Iranian journalist has ever dared. His barbs helped take down one of the regime's sturdiest figures, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in last month's parliamentary elections...
...about 9.5%. They're easy to tap and fully tax deductible regardless of investment income. That last point is big because hot stocks today don't throw off dividend income. You may be better off in the short run tapping your home-equity line than margining your brokerage account. And consider: if you have tapped a home-equity line for any reason, and you also own stocks in a taxable account, you've effectively leveraged your house to be in the market. (Ditto credit cards: carrying a balance while holding stocks is like charging your investment...
That has Fed chief Alan Greenspan mildly concerned. When stocks fall, margined portfolios fall faster. What should make him lose sleep, though, is knowing that home-equity loans--now shooting beyond $500 billion--account for an unknown level of further market speculation. When home values and stocks rise together, "the gains from each help finance the other," he noted last November. If it turns out that rising home values are being mortgaged to prop up stocks, a crack in the stock market could hit home values hard...
...MONEY AMONG FRIENDS? Nothing's harder than asking friends for money they owe you. Now two websites can help. Both paypal.com and payme.com let you request the cash and conduct the transaction entirely online. With Payme, launched last week, you first register at the site with your bank account or credit-card number. Then you e-mail your deadbeat friends, asking them to enter their credit-card numbers on the Payme site. With Paypal, both parties must register at the site, which will deposit the money into your bank, mail you a check or leave the money in a Paypal...