75% of U.S. citizens ages 17-24 cannot pass military entrance exams because they are not physically fit, have criminal records, or because they lack critical skills needed in modern warfare, including how to locate on a map military theaters in which the U.S. is fulsomely engaged, such as Afghanistan. The CFR Report argues that this egregious knowledge gap will make it increasingly hard to fill the ranks of U.S. foreign service, intelligence, and armed forces. Moreover, contrary to popular belief, the 25% of American students who drop out of high school will not be able to serve in the U.S. military. In addition, 30% of those who do graduate high school still lack the basic math, science, and English competency to pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 01:55

Navios Maritime Acquisition Corp (NYSE: NNA) has been named as a Top 10 dividend paying energy stock, according to Dividend Channel, which published its weekly ?DividendRank? report. The report noted that among energy companies, NNA shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics. For example, the recent NNA share price of $3.28 represents ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 15:27

Whatever your view on the IRS, it's hard not to be impressed by its foray into global reporting, disclosure, and withholding. After U.S. actions against and others, the IRS began a compliance push like no other. In addition to record victories, the IRS has mounted several successive voluntary disclosure programs to net global income and ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:56

Working at a super market, insurance company, bank, title company, in retail, Burger King (and the list goes on) was never in my plans. They weren't what I dreamt about doing when I grew up. When I rang up the burgers, reality set in and the dreams went to the wayside. Money became more important than my dream. It had to. And then I woke up.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:54

Conditions at Research In Motion are not good. The company is losing massive amounts of market share to Apple and Android, and it faces revived competition from Microsoft. The PlayBook tablet is not gaining a lot of traction. And while the bulls hope for a revival from the launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:50

When it comes to exchange-traded products, you either get it or you don?t. And, according to , more institutional investors are getting it every day. Analyzing??U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 13F filings, ?s ETF research team summizes that 51.6% of all exchange-traded products in the United States??were??held by institutional investors, inlcuding brokers, registered investment advisers, ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:30

What trends will the stylish guys be rocking this season? For starters, they will be temporarily trading in their navy suits and jackets for??other shades of blue. And those fail-safe khaki chinos will have to go to the back of the closet for now to make way for??bold pants in colors borrowed from every shade ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:56

The White House announced today that it will nominate president and health expert Jim Yong Kim to run the World Bank, one of the world?s most powerful international institutions. Who?s he? Last November Forbes? , a Dartmouth alumna, profiled him for the magazine: Training as both a physician and an anthropologist, Kim went on to ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:56

This story accompanies a profile of the French exploit-selling firm Vupen in the April 9th issue of Forbes magazine. A clever hacker today has to make tough choices. Find a previously unknown method for dismantling the defenses of a device like an iPhone or iPad, for instance, and you can report it to present it ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:56

Auriga USA analyst??Sandeep Shyamsukha this morning cut his rating on the chip maker Xilinx to Hold from Buy, trimming his target price to $39, from $42. The stock closed Thursday at $36.23. The analyst writes that the reduced rating reflects ?a continued soft recovery? in carrier capital spending. ?We also see increased threat to the ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:56