[email_link] 1. McDonald’s’ daily customer traffic (62 million) is more than the population of Great Britain. 2. McDonald’s sells more than 75 hamburgers every second. 3. McDonald’s feeds 68 million people per day, that’s about 1 percent of the world’s population. 4. McDonald’s’ $27 billion in revenue makes it the 90th-largest economy in the world….
[email_link] THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOVERNMENT IS BIGGER THAN THE PEOPLE…BUT BLAME THE PEOPLE. THEY KEEP VOTING IN THE SAME MISCREANTS! Gov. Jerry Brown announced on Saturday that the state’s deficit has ballooned to $16 billion, a huge increase over his $9.2-billion estimate in January. The bigger deficit is a significant setback for California,…
[email_link] Global investors give Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke his highest approval rating since 2009 and expect him to take further action this year to accelerate a revival in the U.S. economy and financial markets. Bernanke, whom Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he wouldn’t reappoint for running too lax a monetary policy, receives a favorable assessment from…
[email_link] Business executives have named California the absolutely worst state for business for the 8th year in a row, says Chief Executive magazine. The publication surveyed 650 chief executives about states based on such factors as business taxation and regulation, workforce quality and living environment. CEOs gave the Golden State four out of five stars…
[email_link] Here we go. The same media that stuck their head’s in the sand back in 08 on Obama now reporting on Romney from 1965. Just amazing. Watchdogs for some…lapdogs for others. Just a shame to watch. Next up…Romney caused the Chicago fire, the titanic sinking and the bubonic plague. Oops…that was George Bush! READ THIS:…
[email_link] (CBS) –Garrett McNamara now has the Guinness World Record for the largest wave ever surfed after riding a 78-footer in November off the coast of Nazare, Portugal. Mike Parson had the previous mark, riding a 77-footer off the Southern California coast in 2008. The ruling became official on Friday by a panel of experts for the…
[email_link] Here’s a curious fact about the French economy: The country has 2.4 times as many companies with 49 employees as with 50. What difference does one employee make? Plenty, according to the French labor code. Once a company has at least 50 employees inside France, management must create three worker councils, introduce profit sharing, and submit restructuring…
[email_link] WASHINGTON — With the victory of the Socialist candidate, François Hollande, in the French presidential election, the White House has lost one of its closest allies on the Continent, but perhaps gained one with economic policy beliefs more closely aligned with its own. Mr. Hollande is virtually unknown in Washington, and his policy positions on…
[email_link] Bake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on, will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative ways to raise money for kids. At a minimum, the nosh clampdown targets so-called…
[email_link] Yes…Robert Reich doesn’t want socialism. He just wants to redistribute the wealth. Memo to Mr. Reich: Money is not given to most people who are rich. They earn it. Government doesn’t give money to the rich. The rich give the money to the government. Inequality persists because there are some who refuse to educate themselves…
