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...acre plant site, a rail spur, road improvements, a construction grant, tax credits for new employees and a 20% discount on sewer bills for the next 15 years. That sewage-treatment plant, by the way, cost $7 million and is large enough to accommodate a second city the size of Jonesboro (pop. 50,000). So for each of the 165 workers at the plant, the government has invested $61,000--which is a lot of chips...
...fostering the illusion of an uptick in employment. But it does not create more jobs in the nation as a whole. Market forces do that, and that's why 10 million jobs have been created since 1990. But most of those jobs have been created by small- and medium-size companies, from high-tech start-ups to franchised cleaning services. FORTUNE 500 companies, on the other hand, have erased more jobs than they have created this past decade, and yet they are the biggest beneficiaries of corporate welfare...
...bidders in the communities where it does business. Here's how it works: during the summer of 1997, GM let it be known that it was considering a $355 million expansion of an assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, to build sport-utility vehicles. The decision would hinge on the size of tax breaks granted by the city government. After all, two other cities with GM truck plants--Shreveport, La., and Linden, N.J.--were vying for the new facility. At least that is what GM officials hinted to Moraine officials. And that is what the local newspaper, the Dayton Daily News...
...world's currency reserves, in contrast to 20% for the European currencies, and is used to buy and sell nearly half the world's exports. That's about to change. "There will be a reallocation, because the dollar is currently overused with respect to the size of the American economy," says Bruno Leresche, head of asset management at Paribas, a leading French investment bank...
...then we'll know whether this fall's Palace surge is a fad or a genuine paradigm shift, the Net's first step toward the three-dimensional virtual world that cyberpunk writers have envisioned for years. Imagine the capitalist dreams that cheap bandwidth and visual communities the size of shopping malls might fulfill: try-it-on Gaps; virtual town halls; online nightclubs with live video and sound. "I'm not sure that even the guys at E.C. know what the Palace's future is," says Foley. Like the Web browser before it, the Palace has a chance to become that...