A RAFT of Budget changes come into effect today, giving the average worker an extra $20 a week but cutting off family welfare for the nation’s highest earners. NEWS.com.au takes a look at how the Federal Budget will affect you from today.
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Inc.com Blogs: Should We Beat the Windex Price?
Here’s a real world quandary. At TerraCycle we recently launched a line of ultimate eco-friendly cleaners. Their efficacy is great (same or even better in some cases than the synthetics). They are packaged in used soda bottles, with end run triggers, and moreover, they retail at a strong price ($2.99 for a 1L bottle). [...]
Wine marketing goes high-tech
(Fortune Small Business) — There is perhaps no better example of the democratization of wine marketing than Gary Vaynerchuk. His almost-daily, 25-minute video rants about the subject, Wine Library TV, boast 60,000 viewers, who post an astonishing 300 to 500 comments per episode.
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Mortgage Approvals In Britain Down To Record Low Of 42,000 In May
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Families’ cash fears worst for 26 years
Families are more fearful about their financial future than during the depths
of the last recession, as they struggle with soaring food and fuel costs.
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As Tobacco Loses Currency, a New Cash Crop Blooms
Jamie Raley’s family has been farming in St. Mary’s County since Abraham Lincoln was president, mostly growing tobacco. But with the drop in U.S. cigarette smoking over the past decade, tobacco no longer pays. So the Raleys cast about for something else that would keep them on the farm.
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Election could delay Fed rate rise until December (Reuters)
“The Fed will want to be as low-key and invisible as
possible and that means the Fed will not want to change the
funds rate ahead of the election,” said William Poole, who
retired in March as president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve
Bank after a decade on the Fed’s rate-setting committee.
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10 Tips on Estimating Your Business Start Up Costs
Here are ten very important tips on estimating your business start up costs. You definitely shall benefit from them.
1. You need to figure out everything that you need for the start up costs of the business. Remember, this amount is different than the amount cost for the survival of the company for the year. You [...]
‘Hold on, tax cuts are coming’
INCOME tax cuts will help make up for the rising cost of fuel and other cost of living pressures, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says.
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Commerce Official Tapped for SBA
President Bush appoints a former corporate consultant to lead the federal small-business agency.
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